685136 - Firefox doesn't delete local shared objects (LSO) on exit or using "clear recent history"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 607908

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Drey]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2
Build ID: 20110902133214

Steps to reproduce:

Cleared all cookies using "clear recent history"
or configured Firefox to clear my cookies automatically upon exit



Actual results:

Flash Player settings manager in Windows 7 Control Panel still contained LSOs for sites i visited.


Expected results:

Flash Player settings manager in Windows 7 Control Panel should not contain LSOs for sites i visited, they should be deleted.

Flash 10.3.183.7

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Did you include the cookies with "clear recent history" ?

Comment 2

[Drey]

(In reply to Matthias Versen (Matti) from comment #1)
> Did you include the cookies with "clear recent history" ?

Yes.

Comment 3

[mjh563]

Did you have the time range in "Clear recent history" set to "Everything"?

Comment 4

[Drey]

(In reply to mjh563 from comment #3)
> Did you have the time range in "Clear recent history" set to "Everything"?

Yeah, I tried that. Tested more. Seems like Firefox only deletes them if you are browsing a tab open with website which issues LSOs.
Even tried Private Browsing - it works properly. The issue is in usual mode.

Also Firefox never clears those super-cookies automatically upon exit even if set to do so.

Comment 5

[olistrut]

Same in FF 7.0 Beta. I have FF set to delete all cookies upon closing the browser, but Flash cookies are still present after restarting Firefox.


FF version is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0
Flash version is 10.3 r183

Comment 6

[olistrut]

My bad - works for me now. Firefox did not delete Flash cookies (and regular cookies) for a few restart cycles (maybe the FF instance did not shut down properly, never checked), but now it does.