Some uses for history:

• Returning to a page you visited before, but which you did not bookmark
• Restoring tabs you had open in your previous session after starting Firefox

When viewing Privacy preferences, I suggest changing the selector to Firefox will: Use custom settings for history to see what categories of data Firefox can store.

Then you can decide whether you want your searches and form entries remembered, or whether you want to clear certain data at shutdown.

I suggest these cookie settings:

[X] Accept cookies from sites Accept third party cookies: Always Keep until: I close Firefox*

* To stay logged in on selected sites, you can add them to the Exceptions list

Using Firefox will: Never remember history starts Firefox in automatic private browsing mode. That usually isn't necessary, since you can open a private window any time from the menu for those sites where you do not want Firefox to record history. See: Private Browsing - Use Firefox without saving history.

Hi, thanks, You say "* To stay logged in on selected sited, you can add..exceptions list"

Did you "X" - choose to accept cookies from sites or not

OR

does your "X" mean that you did NOT check the box for - Accept cookies...sites

X = checkmark, so Yes.

Many sites will not work correctly if you do not accept cookies, for example, this site (the cookie is how the site knows you logged in).

Oh-k. So, when I want to go to a web site, it needs to communicate with me for certain things like this blog, for instance; so do I need to copy the url for each site and go into the options...web.....and post it in cookies - exceptions.

With as many were on there (hundreds) before I just deleted them, would I be needing to do this often? I like hulu and looking up information and email. Gee, How many cookies do I need?

Heh, thanks for the 'real' info.

No, nothing like that. When you set cookies to expire when you close Firefox, everything works normally. The thing you might notice is that you logged into a website and checked a box to remember you. But Firefox doesn't remember you on the next startup, because it expired out that cookie when it shut down. If that annoys you, then you would need to add an exception just for that site, so Firefox could remember the cookie longer.

And here's an easier way to do: call up the Permissions panel of the Page Info dialog. You can open it using any of these:

• right-click the page and choose View Page Info > Permissions
• (menu bar) Tools menu > Page Info > Permissions
• click the padlock or globe icon to the left of the site address > More Information > Permissions

As you scroll down, you'll see "Set Cookies" and you can uncheck "Use default" and choose "Allow" instead. Then you can close Page Info. No typing required.

Sorry about the typos. Long day.