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I have FF 29.0.1 with Vista O/S. My Menu/History "Clear Recent History" is grayed out.

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The Menu/History “restore previous session” is also grayed out. I saw an answer to this but it involved upgrading to the newest Firefox, which I already have, and/or changing the O/S. I never change O/S until I change computers. It is just too fraught with problems.

I have “private browsing”, “accept cookies” and “do not tell sites about my tracking preferences” set. In case it means anything, I did change to “no history” and “no cookies” briefly a couple of days ago but changed back the same day.

I recently read that we are safest when we shop/browse on sales sites anonymously in order to avoid their increasingly smarter tracking software. ( I have been noticing a tremendous increase in “targeted ads”.) To do this we are told to log out of all accounts (Yahoo, email etc.) and clear all history and cookies. So another question I have is whether this is really necessary with my current security settings? Thank you!

The Menu/History “restore previous session” is also grayed out. I saw an answer to this but it involved upgrading to the newest Firefox, which I already have, and/or changing the O/S. I never change O/S until I change computers. It is just too fraught with problems. I have “private browsing”, “accept cookies” and “do not tell sites about my tracking preferences” set. In case it means anything, I did change to “no history” and “no cookies” briefly a couple of days ago but changed back the same day. I recently read that we are safest when we shop/browse on sales sites anonymously in order to avoid their increasingly smarter tracking software. ( I have been noticing a tremendous increase in “targeted ads”.) To do this we are told to log out of all accounts (Yahoo, email etc.) and clear all history and cookies. So another question I have is whether this is really necessary with my current security settings? Thank you!

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If you are in Private Browsing mode then no data is saved to the Firefox profile folder and thus you can't reopen closed tabs and use Session Restore otherwise.

Make sure that you do not run Firefox in permanent Private Browsing mode (Never remember history).

  • Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history"
  • Deselect: [ ] "Always use Private Browsing mode"
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If you are in Private Browsing mode then no data is saved to the Firefox profile folder and thus you can't reopen closed tabs and use Session Restore otherwise.

Make sure that you do not run Firefox in permanent Private Browsing mode (Never remember history).

  • Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history"
  • Deselect: [ ] "Always use Private Browsing mode"