Comments on: Set Firefox To Clear Temp Files, History etc. On Shut Down

By: tommy s

tommy s — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:06:42 +0000

Overkill? Not.
I don’t want my browser to remember any of my passwords for ANY site. There’s no reason it should. If it mattered to no one whether others had access to their passwords on “non-critical sites”… then there wouldn’t be passwords required there in the first place, would there.

Clearing passwords has to be an all or nothing proposition. Either you clear ‘em, or you don’t. There should NEVER be a “oh, well, THIS password is less critical than those others, so it’s okay if you don’t clear this one” option. Otherwise the user will always be unsure which passwords were cleared and which were not, without auditing the whole system.

By: zeeba neighba

zeeba neighba — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:40:52 +0000

Overkill – why would anyone want to delete saved passwords for noncritical sites? There are so many trivial passwords required, no one can keep track of them all. The key here is to never save a password or login for banking or other information-sensitive sites, and let the computer save the ones for the trivial sites – who cares if some hacks your log-in name for snarky comments you leave on Wonkette?

By: venkat

venkat — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:10:00 +0000

This is a tip every body knows ,”shutdown” is not word might be “closing “. we can set to clear even temporary internet files in internet explorer when IE is closed .check this http://computersservicing.blogspot.com/2008/07/clear-temporary-internet-files.html

By: Aibek

Aibek — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:04:19 +0000

Every good tip. It’s one of those things that needs to be set right after Firefox is installed.

By: codyp

codyp — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:27:38 +0000

I not seem to have that issue with the awesome bar on windows. The form fields only remembered for me are ones I want it to remember. The zoom thing however is a major give. I always reset it before i leave the page so I never would have known.

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:49:41 +0000

As I commented on Firefox Facts's article (they deleted the commenbt), this isn't fool-proof. Firefox 3 does not clear all private data. See the following bugs: form input not cleared Awesome Bar still shows history (so it's obviously not cleared) after using Clear Private Data & cache is not emptied Zoom levels on sites are remembered after Clear Private Data which can give away that the site has been visited That said, I do still use it. I like that the cookies are cleared. No side-jacking for me, thanks much. The cache issue is at least gotten around by the fact that this is when quitting the browser, so it's exiting. Clear Private Data definitely doesn't work right while FF is running though. ----- Just started using NoScript again...MUO needs JS to add a comment?

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:08:13 +0000

I’ve been doing this for a looooooong time. I also, as added protection, disabled FF from saving my browsing history at all.

And you know, add this to the fact that my OSX laptop has my home folder encrypted, and the Windows laptop has the entire drive encrypted… yeah. What, me, paranoid? I have no idea where you’d get that kind of idea.

-Adam

By: codyp

codyp — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:07:36 +0000

I had this setup for a while, but must have over looked the ask me box. It asked me everytime i closed the browser, so I just made a habit of pressing ctrl+shift+del, to clear my data to clear it on the fly. I may go back to this set up since it wont beg me for instructions. Then again my hands are trained.