If you are working on a multi-user system you may sometimes want to hide information about visited websites from those other users. While it is possible to do that with the private browsing mode in Firefox, or by deleting all temporary files and the history, it often is more convenient to delete only the recent Firefox history.
The option to clear the recent history has been included in Firefox for quite some time, but many Firefox users do not know that this option exists. The Clear Recent History menu becomes available after pressing Ctrl-Shift-Del, or following the Tools > Clear Recent History Path.
The new menu window that opens up displays all kinds of data that can be deleted, and a time range at the top that is often overlooked as it displays Everything by default.
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A click on the pull down menu however reveals time ranges that can be selected, for instance the last hour, two hours or four hours.
To pick a harmless example. Say you have decided to shop for a birthday present for a household member. Instead of using the private browsing mode you could simply use the browser as normal, and open the Clear Recent History menu afterwards to delete all data that has been accumulated in the last x hours so that it becomes impossible to retrace the last browsing session.
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