Closed Bug 602743 Opened 14 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Clear Recent History doesn't remove Offline Storage Data

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

defect
Not set
major

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1047098

People

(Reporter: trappmanrhett, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [bugday-20140317])

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101007 Firefox/4.0b8pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101007 Firefox/4.0b8pre "Clear Recent History" does not remove data that has been stored for offline use. Reproducible: Always
OS: Windows Vista → All
Hardware: x86 → x86_64
Version: unspecified → Trunk
STR: 1. Go to a site that populates persistent storage (e.g. click "play" & load on http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/). 2. Check fxprofile/storage/persistent/ for "http+++www.unrealengine.com" (size > 100MB). 3. Clear recent history -> offline website data. 4. Repeat step 2. Actual: Folder still there with same size. Expected: Folder deleted. That's a major boo-boo (and should be really easy to fix), stumbled upon this when inspecting wasted space on my machine and saw that Monster Madness / playverse.com used >760MB without a quick and obvious way to delete that data (except for visiting the site again -> site info -> permissions -> clear offline data).
Severity: enhancement → major
Component: Security → Untriaged
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Component: Untriaged → Storage
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Sorry, wrong component. STRs were with clear recent history from "last hour".
Component: Storage → Untriaged
Product: Toolkit → Firefox
(like bug 436248 — maybe a duplicate?)
Component: Untriaged → Preferences
Whiteboard: [bugday-20140317]
See also Bug 527667. Will check later.
Flags: needinfo?(fb+mozdev)
See Also: → 527667
Not only the Web Storage API (localstorage), but also the IndexedDB API seems to use the persistent storage folder. I don't know if this changes anything, but I figured I would add the comment.
Why nothing can clean and delete these folders inside profile (unless manually)? storage |-persistent |-http+++example.com |-idb |-.metadata |-[...] |-temporary |-http+++example2.com |-[...] E.g. You may be downloading big files from Mega and something make the download fail and the big incomplete files will stay inside those folders forever. Eventually using much more space than the defined cache limit. Other sites create those folders for almost no reason, and more folders start accumulating there. Imo, this problem is severe and too old already.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
See Also: 527667
Flags: needinfo?(bsheila727)
Flags: needinfo?(bsheila727)
Flags: needinfo?(fb+mozdev)
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