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How do I prevent the history being kept of 'Recently Closed Tabs'?

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ratonabike
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Though I have my Options/Privacy/History settings set to NOT keep any history of of my browsing, Firefox is still keeping a History of my 'Recently Closed Tabs'... How do I prevent Firefox from keeping a history of my recently closed tabs?? thanks!

Though I have my Options/Privacy/History settings set to NOT keep any history of of my browsing, Firefox is still keeping a History of my 'Recently Closed Tabs'... How do I prevent Firefox from keeping a history of my recently closed tabs?? thanks!

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cor-el
cor-el
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You can set the pref browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo to 0 to clear the "Recently Closed Tabs" list.

If you want to re-use the "Recently Closed Tabs" feature (Undo Closed Tabs) then you can reset the pref browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo to the default value via the right-click context menu.