Bug#820960: iceweasel: history of keyword searches saved, despite preferences

Benjamin Moody benjaminmoody at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 04:50:48 UTC 2016


Package: iceweasel
Version: 38.7.1esr-1~deb8u1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Despite setting preferences that browsing and search history should be
cleared upon exiting Iceweasel, it seems that the history of "keyword"
searches is still being saved somewhere on disk.

Steps to reproduce:

* Start Iceweasel with a fresh profile, no addons.

* Go to Preferences > Privacy.
  Select "Use custom settings for history".
  Check "Clear history when Iceweasel closes".
   (Note that by default, this includes "Browsing and Download
   History", "Active Logins", "Form and Search History", "Cookies",
   and "Cache".)

* Define a search keyword:
  - Go to https://startpage.com
  - Right-click the text input field.
  - Select "Add a Keyword for this Search".
  - Enter "sp" as the keyword and click Save.

* Perform a search:
  - Type "sp fnord" in the URL bar and press Enter.

* Exit Iceweasel and start it again.

* Type "sp" in the URL bar (without pressing Enter.)

Result: the popup suggestion below the URL bar appears as

   fnord - StartPage Web Search
   https://startpage.com/do/search

indicating that information about the previous search (namely, the
title of the results page, which includes the search terms) is somehow
remembered after exiting the browser.

It should go without saying that this is worrisome for users who are
using a shared system and expecting the "clear history" feature to
work as advertised.


-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled

-- Plugins information

-- Addons package information
ii  iceweasel      38.7.1esr-1~ amd64        Web browser based on Firefox

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.4+b1
ii  fontconfig                2.11.0-6.3
ii  libasound2                1.0.28-1
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.19-18+deb8u4
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.102-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.21-stable-2
ii  libffi6                   3.1-2+b2
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6              2.5.2-3+deb8u1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.2-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.31.1-2+deb8u4
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.42.1-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.25-3+deb8u1
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.3-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.8-3
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.2-10
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.4-1+b1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.9-9
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages iceweasel recommends:
ii  gstreamer1.0-libav         1.4.4-2
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good  1.4.4-2

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn  fonts-mathjax          <none>
pn  fonts-oflb-asana-math  <none>
pn  fonts-stix | otf-stix  <none>
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-2.1
pn  libgnomeui-0           <none>
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u2
pn  mozplugger             <none>

-- no debconf information



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