Bug 693707 – Respect system wide privacy settings

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Bug 693707 - Respect system wide privacy settings


Summary:	Respect system wide privacy settings


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	epiphany
Classification:	Core
Component:	History
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Epiphany Maintainers
QA Contact:	Epiphany Maintainers

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Reported:	2013-02-13 14:22 UTC by Allan Day
Modified:	2018-08-03 19:49 UTC

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GNOME version:	3.7/3.8

Description Allan Day 2013-02-13 14:22:40 UTC

I'm not sure whether this is currently done or not, so apologies if I've got it wrong.

In 3.7.x the control center gained privacy settings, which includes a Recent and History section. I would expect Web to follow these settings, so that it doesn't record browsing history if Recently Used is turned off, and so that it purges history after the user specified interval.

Comment 1 Xan Lopez 2013-02-24 11:33:06 UTC

We are doing this in private and incognito sessions, but not in normal ones (even if that setting is on). So yeah, not implemented.

Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2016-06-10 20:45:57 UTC

I didn't know about these settings... agreed, cool idea.

Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-08-03 19:49:52 UTC

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