How to disable recently closed tabs in history
Back to this issue: what is the point of private browsing when the history facility shows recently closed tabs? The previous thread on this has been closed, but there seems to be no simple solution for technophobes like me. I appreciate that this forum has not been deluged with postings on this, but this is probably because most people believe that 'in private browsing' means just that and (like me, until today) have never thought to look at 'recently closed tabs'. I understand that this forum is staffed by volunteers, but have they taken this up with Mozilla? Does anyone from Mozilla read this forum (if not, why not?) and will they do something about it?
Has anyone come up up with a simple solution?
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Since posting the above, I have come across this: '
Firefox’s recently closed tabs and recently closed windows are not controlled by the history settings. Which means even if you have history disabled the last windows and tabs you closed will still be there.
If you are worried about your privacy and you don’t want others to able to find out the last websites you visited then an addition solution to disabling the history is to disable the recently closed tabs and recently closed windows as well.
In order to do that you will need to following the steps below:
* Type about:config in your address bar and press enter.
- Search for browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo and browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo.
- Change the value to the number of max entries you want Firefox to remember. Use 0 to disable them completely.
And as always, if you are making changes to Firefox’s configuration, it is always wise to restart Firefox once the changes have been made.
Note that Firefox still remembers one closed window even when the browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo pref is set to 0, so it is best to close all open tabs in a window before closing this window, if this is possible (you can't do this in a pop-up window).
Set the browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab pref to false on the about:config page to prevent closing the last tab from closing that window.