[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 217034] [GTK] Stop using the default website data store for the inspector

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Mon Sep 28 07:14:00 PDT 2020


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217034

--- Comment #5 from Carlos Garcia Campos <cgarcia at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #4)
> OK, makes sense, especially for saving ephemeral settings. Except:
> 
> (In reply to Carlos Garcia Campos from comment #3)
> > We have always saved the inspector settings globally, and not per application.
> 
> Problem is this makes it hard to audit that Epiphany/WebKit isn't leaking
> data into the default data dirs. Currently, as long as you don't open yelp,
> ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Epiphany/cache/webkitgtk should never exist. But with
> this change, you have to never open yelp *or* the web inspector, which is
> harder. ;) What do you think about using a different global location, like
> "webkitgtk-inspector" instead of the default location?

It's not the default one, this one is versioned, so the directory is not webkitgtk, but webkitgtk-4.0.

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