Closed Bug 952856 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

"Clear recent history" is disabled when browser.privatebrowsing.autostart is true

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
29 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 463607

People

(Reporter: obrufau, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131222030204

Steps to reproduce:

1. Browse some sites
2. Set browser.privatebrowsing.autostart to true
3. Restart Firefox


Actual results:

The old history is still there but can't be cleared because "Clear recent history" is disabled.


Expected results:

"Clear recent history" should still be enabled.
This is by design. What you see there is the history from the other (non-private) session and not the private one. "Clear recent history" is disabled because there isn't any 'recent private history' to clear.
Anyway, you can still get rid of that either by clearing it from the non-private session or from Tools/Options/Privacy/Clear all current history.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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