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chriswyatt
June 27th, 2009, 12:21 PM
In Firefox 3.5 they've changed the name to Clear Recent History, isn't this a bit confusing? I wouldn't count saved passwords or offline data as history, what was wrong with Clear Private Data? :confused:

sim-value
June 27th, 2009, 01:13 PM
Well its because you can limit it to a certain Time range which is a handy feature if you forgot about Private Browsing ...

richg
June 27th, 2009, 07:11 PM
I have not used 3.5 yet but I do know 3.0.11 leaves twelve items in History by default even though you select to clear All History. You have to configure Firefox to leave zero items.
I happened to hit a site that would bring me back to their site when I opened Firefox and had Preferences set to clear all History when I shut Firefox.

Rich