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Why in private mode are my recently closed tabs visible?

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Richardlk
Richardlk

Hey - thanks for all your hard work! When I check my recently closed tabs in private mode, all the tabs for my session are listed, so my history is sorta recorded

Cheers Keep up the good work Richard

Hey - thanks for all your hard work! When I check my recently closed tabs in private mode, all the tabs for my session are listed, so my history is sorta recorded Cheers Keep up the good work Richard

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In a Private Browsing mode window you see the tabs you closed in Private Browsing mode and not tabs you closed in regular mode windows. The same is true that in a regular window you only see tabs closed in a regular window and not tabs you closed in a Private Browsing mode window. Keep in mind that PB mode only means that no data is stored to the profile folder, but is instead kept in memory. There is not much difference about the way Firefox works in PB mode.

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In a Private Browsing mode window you see the tabs you closed in Private Browsing mode and not tabs you closed in regular mode windows. The same is true that in a regular window you only see tabs closed in a regular window and not tabs you closed in a Private Browsing mode window. Keep in mind that PB mode only means that no data is stored to the profile folder, but is instead kept in memory. There is not much difference about the way Firefox works in PB mode.