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Browser extension for clearing browsing data, available for Chrome, Edge and Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clear-browsing-data/
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Local storage is not always cleared on Firefox #23

Open mecotheman opened 5 years ago

mecotheman commented 5 years ago

System

Bug description

When I try to delete the Local Storage Data with the extension, nothing happens. The data is not removed and I don't get the "notification on success" message. All the other Data Types are not a problem, but when I toggle "Local Storage Data" in the extension settings then nothing happens and nothing is deleted.

When I use Ctrl-Shift-Delete in the browser and select "Offline Website Data" the remove is succesfull.

Logs

NS_ERROR_FAILURE: Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIURI.hostPort] ext-browsingData.js:192
dessant commented 5 years ago

I cannot reproduce the bug with Firefox 70 on Arch Linux, could you check if the issue is present in a fresh profile?

dessant commented 5 years ago

In any case I think you've found an upstream bug, this workaround may help: https://github.com/dessant/clear-browsing-data/issues/4#issuecomment-460051616

Please report the Firefox bug here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

mecotheman commented 5 years ago

Thank you for the information. I also read the #4 thread you linked to.

I did 2 tests in other profiles. One older test-profile I already had and I also created a fresh test-profile. In the older test-profile I experience the same problem (with same error), but in the fresh profile I do not experience the problem.

So, as you suggested this is probably a problem with older firefox-profiles. I will report it in bugzilla. I will let you know. Thanks again.

mecotheman commented 5 years ago

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592472

dessant commented 5 years ago

Thanks for sharing the issue!