Part of Pentadactyl's user efficiency comes at the cost of storing a lot of potentially private data, including command-line history, page marks, visited page history, and the like. Because we know that keeping a detailed trail of all of your activities isn't always welcome, Pentadactyl provides comprehensive facilities for erasing potentially sensitive data.
Pentadactyl fully supports Firefox's private browsing mode. When in private browsing mode, no data other than Bookmarks and QuickMarks are written to disk. Further, upon exiting private mode, all newly accumulated data, including command-line history, local and URL marks, and macros, are purged from memory. For more information, see 'private'.
In addition to private mode, Pentadactyl provides a comprehensive facility for clearing any potentially sensitive data generated by either Pentadactyl or Firefox. It directly integrates with Firefox's own sanitization facility, and so automatically clears any domain data and session history when requested. Further, Pentadactyl provides its own more granular sanitization facility, which allows, e.g., clearing only the command-line and macro history for the past ten minutes.
Clear private data items for {timespan}, where {item} … is a list of private items to delete. If [!] is specified, then 'sanitizeitems' is used for the list of items to delete. Items may be any of:
When history items are sanitized, all command-line history items containing URLs or page titles (other than bookmark commands) are additionally cleared. Invocations of the :sanitize command are included in this set.
If {timespan} (short name -t) is specified, only items within that timespan are deleted, otherwise the value of 'sanitizetimespan' is used. If [-older] (short name -o) is specified, then only items older than {timespan} are deleted.
Note: The following items are always cleared entirely, regardless of {timespan}: cache, host, offlineapps, passwords, sessions, sitesettings. Conversely, host and options are never cleared unless a host is specified.If {host} (short name -h) is specified, only items containing a reference to that domain or a subdomain thereof are cleared. Moreover, if either of commandline or history is specified, the invocation of the :sanitize command is naturally cleared as well.
Note: This only applies to commandline, cookies, history, marks, messages, options, and sitesettings. All other domain-specific data is cleared only along with host, when a request is made to Firefox to purge all data for {host}. Included in this purge are all matching history entries, cookies, closed tabs, form data, and location bar entries.Manage cookies for {host}. Additionally, the completion list will show you information about the cookies and permissions for the current page.
Available actions:
If no [action] is given, the value of 'cookies' is used.