Closed Bug 828812 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Inability to clear "recently closed tabs" (and "windows") history in private browsing mode

Categories

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Private Browsing
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: domthedude001, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130109 Firefox/21.0 Build ID: 20130109030942 Steps to reproduce: 1. Open a new private window (file->new private window) 2. Open a new tab 3. Go to google.com 4. Close the tab. 5. You can see your tab in "Recently Closed Tabs" 6. Try to clear your tab history through Clear Recent History; it won't work, because that option is grayed out. Actual results: Clear Recent History is grayed out and unable to clear recent tabs. Expected results: Maybe "Clear Recent History" should not be grayed and should clear the tab and window history.
Component: Untriaged → Private Browsing
OS: Windows 8 → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Version: 21 Branch → Trunk
Summary: Inability to clear "recently closed tabs" (and "windows") in private browsing mode → Inability to clear "recently closed tabs" (and "windows") history in private browsing mode
This recently closed tab is not persisted to disk and is excluded from the sessionstore information that we save. This is by design.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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