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firefox-3.0 package

clear private data does not work in Firefox

Bug #296588 reported by alyn21 on 2008-11-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #209794: "Clear Private Data" does not clear private data from the Awesome Bar's Rich Results list. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

clear private data does not work in Firefox

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Tom (tom6) wrote on 2008-12-01:

Ubuntu 8.04 or Ubuntu 8.10?

Does it clear most things but not all? or is it totally not clearing anything at all?

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alyn21 (alyn21) wrote on 2008-12-02: Re: [Bug 296588] Re: clear private data does not work in Firefox

Tom: It is totally not clearing anything at all.
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Subject: [Bug 296588] Re: clear private data does not work in Firefox

Ubuntu 8.04 or Ubuntu 8.10?

Does it clear most things but not all? or is it totally not clearing
anything at all?

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Status in “firefox-3.0” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

clear private data does not work in Firefox

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Tom (tom6) wrote on 2008-12-02:

Wierd. I don't know an answer to this at all :(

You've ticked all the boxes and pressed the green arrow and still nothing gets cleared.

Sorry dude, good luck finding an answer
Regards from Tom

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Tom (tom6) wrote on 2008-12-12:

Hmmm, someone suggested a workaround for part of this problem, maybe there is other stuff in there that might be helpful but be careful of the dragons ;) (you'll see what i mean)

In address bar type

about:config

instead of a urls location, now promise to be careful and find line

browser.urlbar.maxRichResults

change from the default 12 to 0

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Tom (tom6) wrote on 2008-12-12:

... that just deals with the problem of previous websites cropping up when you type an address into the address box as it tries to guess what address you are aiming for. It's not perfect either because if you set the value back up higher than 0 it brings back some of those old addresses - so presumably the llist is helpfully stored somewhere :(

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote on 2008-12-14:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 209794, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.