645080 - [adbe 2834581] Per-site clearing of Flash Player LSOs should get hooked up to the privacy pane

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Description

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

The clearing per site (domain) feature in Flash Player 10.2+ can currently only be invoked by going to Firefox's history pane and selecting "Forget about this site". However, it would make sense to also hook this up to the privacy pane, when selecting "remove individual cookies".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
With FP 10.2+ (not yet public):
Method:
1. Go to a site that writes LSOs (youtube.com for example)
2. Open privacy pane from preferences
3. Select "remove individual cookies"
4. Click on the site that wrote LSOs (youtube.com)
5. Select "Remove cookies"
Actual Results:  
The LSOs persist on the file system.

Expected Results:  
The LSOs for the selected site are cleared from the file system.

Workaround:
Clear LSOs from the history pane by selecting "Forget about this site".

Mozilla bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625497 was originally written up to get this feature hooked up to the history pane. That is confirmed to be working.

Comment 3

[Thorin [:thorin]]

Eshan, after 9 years, I think we can close this as wontfix. yes/no? - flash support will be deprecated Dec 2020 (Bug 1455897)

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

Yes, I agree.