Clear button leaves cache and cookies in place
Pressing clear leaves cache and cookies in place on desktop Firefox, so pages keep old content and users stay logged in.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 14 July 2020 · last reported 12 March 2026
What's going wrong
Desktop users report that after pressing the clear button, cached pages still load, old CSS and images still appear, and login sessions survive.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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