In case you're mad at yourself for closing your precious window with all the right tabs opened, note that Firefox allows to reopen recently closed windows
In case you're mad at yourself for closing your precious window with all the right tabs opened, note that Firefox allows to reopen recently closed windows
I generally have a "home" Firefox window with my most used tabs pinned. Sometimes I close it before another window, so I was frustrated to "lose" it and having to redo my pins. But recently I discovered this feature. Joy!
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I'm still confused. You can delete your history and bookmarks and it is even easier to not create them in the first place, if that's what you want.
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What do you mean by bookmark history? Just delete your bookmarks.
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Are you talking about completely wiping the session?
For example, you open a private window (say, session 1) and bookmark sites while in session 1 to refer to later in the same session. Upon closing session 1 the behaviour you expect is for those bookmarks to be deleted. However in session 2, the bookmarks you created in session 1 are persistent?
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I don't think you understand what tracking means. If you have an issue seeing your bookmarks then you should delete your bookmarks and not create them in the first place. Same goes for your history, just disable it entirely if you don't want that feature. Neither one have anything to do with tracking though.
@PeleSpirit @DarkThoughts not sure if I understand this correctly, please excuse if what I write is beside the point. History and bookmarks are independent. History records whatever site you visit, according to your settings. Bookmarks are different, they are created only if you take action for each bookmark (like using the star in the URL bar or hitting Ctrl+d). They are easily deleted.
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@PeleSpirit you can totally not record history, or delete it automatically every time you close the browser. Also, it isn't sent to anybody, except if you ask to sync it between browser, then it is encrypted, unreadable for anyoone but you and unshared. (Same for bookmarks sync.) You can totally erase bookmarks : open bookmark window, choose them, erase. I don't know how to erase them a automatically when the browser closes. That is because bookmarks are designed to keep between sessions.
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I know you're trying to be helpful, but you guys aren't understanding what I mean.
As a previously-uninvolved observer, I'm not sure you're understanding what you're trying to describe.
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Advertisers can't see your bookmarks (barring the use of some malicious extension that does so, of course). The only people who could see your bookmarks at all, let alone the order the list is in, would be ones physically in the room with you, looking over your shoulder. Are you sure you aren't conflating them with cookies? Those are the only things an advertiser could see.
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It's hardly unreasonable for bookmarks to be appended to the end of the list by default. I mean, how else would you propose doing it? They have to be in some order both to be serialized to disk and for display as a list (as opposed to some kind of word cloud, I guess), and the implied chronological order is merely a side effect of doing the thing that's most straightforward from a programming perspective. Also, you know you can rearrange them however you like, right? They don't have to stay in chronological order if you don't want them to.
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Either you want to keep the bookmarks or you don't. If you want to delete them, delete them! (I'm not sure if you can right-click to do it directly -- you might have to go to the bookmarks manager and do it there -- but it can definitely be done.)
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