chrome://settings/clearBrowserData does not remove all plug-in data |
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Issue descriptionVersion: 50.0.2661.86 (although I expect any current version) OS: All What steps will reproduce the problem? (1) go to chrome://settings/clearBrowserData The third selection says "Cookies and other site and plug-in data" when Flash is enabled, "Cookies and other site data" when Flash is disabled. Since this feature depends on Flash, and only deletes data for Flash (and not any other plugins), the text should be changed to replace "plug-in" with "Flash" or something similar. The code in [1] only checks for Flash plugins, so it is not a generic plugin data remover. [1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/content/browser/plugin_data_remover_impl.cc&sq=package:chromium&type=cs&l=45
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Apr 26 2016
+bauerb and jam who would have some more context on this.
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Apr 26 2016
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Apr 26 2016
Note: This selection probably used to clear NPAPI data as well. The "learn more" link points to https://support.google.com/chrome/?p=settings_clear_browsing_data, which says "Plug-in data: Any client-side data stored by plug-ins that use the NPAPI ClearSiteData API." ( Issue 606625 covers updating that text.) Once NPAPI was deleted, this became just Flash data. I believe all other data stored by Pepper plugins should be covered by same selection that covers the corresponding JavaScript storage.
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Jul 7 2016
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Jul 11 2016
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Aug 18 2016
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Aug 18 2016
Yeah, I'm not opposed to changing the text to make it clear that it's only Flash by now.
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Aug 19 2016
So we have to: 1. Update "plug-in" to "Flash" in the UI. 2. Do the same in the HC article ( issue 606625 ) 3. Ideally also make it clearer in the code. I have recently spent some time puzzling over PluginDataRemover not acknowledging other plugins myself (that's how I came across this bug). I'll take care of it. |
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Comment 1 by jrumm...@chromium.org
, Apr 26 2016