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dessant / clear-browsing-data

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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Firefox cookies not cleared in private browsing #42

Closed logusergithub closed 2 years ago

logusergithub commented 2 years ago

System

To reproduce the issue: new profile, install 'Clear Browsing Data' and 'Cookie Quick Manager', new private browsing window or 'Always use private browsing mode'. Doesn't matter Firefox's ETP normal, strict or custom mode. CBD: all data types selected, close all tabs, 'All time' range. According to 'Cookie Quick Manager' current 'Context cookies (private browsing)' are not cleared. After a few tries it seems to me that many other similar extensions also have the same behavior (only in private browsing) except for example 'Cookie Autodelete'. https://i.postimg.cc/8C9dZ7tb/Cookies.png

I don't know if there is actually a issue but in case I reported it. Thanks.

Update: only if the 'All time' option is chosen.

dessant commented 2 years ago

The browsingData API is poorly implemented in Firefox, extensions cannot properly fix these issues.

https://github.com/dessant/clear-browsing-data/issues/13 https://armin.dev/blog/2019/03/firefox-extensions-browsing-data-security/