[Bug 209794] Re: "Clear Private Data" does not clear private data from the Awesome Bar's Rich Results list

[Greg Mars]

I was really surprised there was no supported way to clear the location bar.
Furthermore, this problem persists in 3.0.5 and it's extremely annoying.
It IS a bug and a big enough bug for me to invoke 'sudo apt-get purge firefox'.

There are times when you simply DO NOT WANT firefox blabbing about everywhere you've been.
Imagine doing a presentation for a client and accidentally bringing up work for a competitor.
Or visiting a politically 'questionable' website under a repressive regime.
The scope for embarrassment/harm is boundless because this program is a complete chatterbox and there is no obvious way to shut it up!

I was *this* close to getting rid of it when I found a way to delete its dossier.
I backed up my bookmarks since I didn't want to risk losing them 
(note to mozilla, one generally bookmarks sites one wants to be reminded of)
shutdown firefox, then did a 'locate places.sqlite' and deleted it.

That seemed to work.
On relaunch, the bar was only populated by sites in my bookmarks.
That's somewhat annoying in itself but there might be an about:config option to turn that off.

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"Clear Private Data" does not clear private data from the Awesome Bar's Rich Results list
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