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Main => Technical Support => Topic started by: brads on October 14, 2015, 04:51:55 pm

Title: Web Wallet Firefox Privacy
Post by: brads on October 14, 2015, 04:51:55 pm

I'm unable to delete web wallet under Firefox, I mean even deleting everything (history, cache...) when I close the browser then open it and going to https://bitshares.openledger.info/ my wallet is here again. With google Chrome it is ok.

My other concern is do I have to backup wallet or is it enough to backup brain key ?

Title: Re: Web Wallet Firefox Privacy
Post by: well.attenuated on October 14, 2015, 04:55:01 pm

Backup wallet.
Backing up the brainkey only recovers new accounts made from within the wallet, not imported ones.

Title: Re: Web Wallet Firefox Privacy
Post by: brads on October 14, 2015, 05:07:04 pm

Quote from: well.attenuated on October 14, 2015, 04:55:01 pm

Backup wallet.
Backing up the brainkey only recovers new accounts made from within the wallet, not imported ones.

Thanks. I used to backup textual data and I must admit I'm not very fond of binary data. Is there a way to get private keys (I can use cli wallet if necessary) ?

Title: Re: Web Wallet Firefox Privacy
Post by: well.attenuated on October 14, 2015, 05:25:41 pm

I am of the same opinion.  I would hope that the CLI would allow some sort of owner-key dumppriv but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. Rather hard to do paper wallets with binary keys.  Maybe someone with some experience could shed some light?

Title: Re: Web Wallet Firefox Privacy
Post by: brads on October 14, 2015, 05:59:13 pm

Firefox indexeddb are not deleted when you ask to delete everything ! This is a shame for a browser claiming to protect your privacy.

You can check in AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxx\storage\default under Windows...

Title: Re: Web Wallet Firefox Privacy
Post by: karnal on October 15, 2015, 09:09:01 am

Quote from: well.attenuated on October 14, 2015, 04:55:01 pm

Backup wallet.
Backing up the brainkey only recovers new accounts made from within the wallet, not imported ones.

Makes sense, but I reckon a lot of people will get screwed over this! Better make it a big red warning somewhere relevant!

Title: Re: Web Wallet Firefox Privacy
Post by: cube on October 15, 2015, 09:20:27 am

Quote from: brads on October 14, 2015, 05:07:04 pm

Quote from: well.attenuated on October 14, 2015, 04:55:01 pm

Backup wallet.
Backing up the brainkey only recovers new accounts made from within the wallet, not imported ones.

Thanks. I used to backup textual data and I must admit I'm not very fond of binary data. Is there a way to get private keys (I can use cli wallet if necessary) ?

You can try dump_private_keys command on the cli wallet.