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Daddy

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Aug 19, 2011, 11:09:19 AM8/19/11
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Regarding about:permissions in Firefox 6...

I love this new feature!

1- Is this still considered an "experimental feature" that "may change
drastically in future versions of Firefox"?

2- Even after I "clear recent history" I can see that about:permissions
still shows websites in the left column, even if I set "clear recent
history" to Everything and then close and re-open the about:permissions
tab. Where is about:permission finding these websites?

3- Does Firefox keep a permanent record of my permission choices? Over
time this could turn into a very large database.

Thanks for your advice.

Daddy

Dave Pyles

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Aug 19, 2011, 11:31:15 AM8/19/11
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All but 2 of the sites in mine are sites for which I have stored
passwords. I removed the stored passwords of an old, no longer used,
ISP and the listing went away, so it must be getting them from the
password manager.
Dave Pyles

Daddy

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Aug 19, 2011, 11:57:42 AM8/19/11
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Not sure about that: I don't store any passwords on Firefox, and yet I
have many websites listed in about:permissions.

Daddy

EE

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Aug 19, 2011, 2:10:18 PM8/19/11
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Firefox is getting that from permissions.sqlite in the profile, for one
source anyway. Most of the sites listed for me are sites for which I
set cookie exceptions. Obviously it is handling passwords as well. I
have no idea where Share Location settings are, or what they are, either.

I would like to know why Share Location keeps resetting to Always Ask
when I set it as Blocked? Same thing for Offline Storage.

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