Firefox users have several options at hand to delete private browsing data. This includes running the browser in private browsing mode, configuring it to delete the data on shutdown or running the clear recent history module manually to delete some or all data this way. Veteran users may remember a time when the browser displayed [...]

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Firefox’s private browsing mode is handy in cases where you do not want to leave a record of your browsing activities on a computer. Firefox does not record information like the visited pages, form and search bar entries or downloads during private browsing mode. Sometimes though you do not want to switch to private browsing [...]

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It is sometimes the little things that can make a big difference. A friend of mine called me the other day about a problem she had with the Firefox web browser. Her problem was that she could not figure out how to go back multiple pages in Firefox. While she did know that it is [...]

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I have little use for a browser’s history feature. I usually bookmark all pages that I consider important and work my way through the rest so that there is almost no need to go back to a previously visited page in a future session. Part of my discomfort could stem from the Firefox history layout [...]

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The Firefox history lists all web pages that have been visited by you in chronological order. What you do not see is how you got there, and how and if the history pages are interlinked. The Firefox add-on From Where To Where collects those information and makes the available in the browser. This can be [...]

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Firefox keeps track of all websites that you open in the web browser. It stores those information in a global history, and individual histories for each tab that you have open in the browser. You can access a tab’s history only on that tab. The history is not inherited if you open links in new [...]

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The history in web browsing terms refers to the group of websites that have been visited previously. Depending on the settings the history can contain the websites that have been visited on that day, the individual browsing session or several days. Why is the browser recording the history? To give the user a tool at [...]

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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 [...]

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Web browsers store information about visited websites in several locations. They usually write data to the temporary Internet files, may save cookies, add the site to the history, may save download information if files have been downloaded or reveal information about sites when using the reopen tabs command. HistoryBlock specializes in blocking information in the [...]

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