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why is firefox now saving my viewing history in privacy mode and available in regular firefox as well? this is a disappointing failure.

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ds99ds
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i just went to private viewing mode and inserted the first letter of a web address and the entire web address appeared. I then went to regular firefox to test this and the same privately-viewed web address showed up there as well. this has never happened before.

i just went to private viewing mode and inserted the first letter of a web address and the entire web address appeared. I then went to regular firefox to test this and the same privately-viewed web address showed up there as well. this has never happened before.

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can you try to reset firefox and see if this can address the issue...

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guigs
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This happens to me too. I filed a bug for what may be expected: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1111049

However private mode is designed to just not save the browser data, not to not have access to that information.

Please do comment on the bug for some rationale, I would be happy to help.

At this time though it is expected behavior :-)

ds99ds
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problem seems to have resolved itself.

Modified by ds99ds

philipp
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can you try to reset firefox and see if this can address the issue...