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Bug 388925

Summary:	Local storage cleaner plugin
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Maciej Bendkowski <maciej.bendkowski>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.client-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	maciej.bendkowski, Szymon.Brandys
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Maciej Bendkowski

2012-09-06 07:29:18 EDT

In bug 359952, comment 19 we came up with an idea for a browser plugin, which would be essentially a local storage cleaner deamon. If vulnerable information are stored in local storage, there is always a problem with clearing them after the user session. Maybe a time-to-live per key or namespace might help deleting keys in the local storage if the user forgot clearing them manually. Maybe even we could somehow track the Orion session and clear all data afterwards. Anyway, this idea is worth investigating.

Comment 1 John Arthorne

2012-09-10 13:16:36 EDT

I think anything requiring a browser extension is a non-starter. We don't want to require users to install a browser extension.

Comment 2 Maciej Bendkowski

2012-09-11 03:51:36 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> I think anything requiring a browser extension is a non-starter. We don't
> want to require users to install a browser extension.

It's not meant as a starter plugin, but as an extension, e. g. to the saving git credentials feature. Using persistent local storage might cause in a need for clearing the storage quite often in some situations. Since people are forgetful such a plugin might come in handy.

Comment 3 John Arthorne

2015-05-05 14:41:06 EDT

Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html