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How can I stop Private Browsing from retaining history of websites visited?

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Whenever I go into "Private Browsing" and start to type in - www, a history of websites visited comes up. I thought that in Private Browsing, history was not retained!

Whenever I go into "Private Browsing" and start to type in - www, a history of websites visited comes up. I thought that in Private Browsing, history was not retained!

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New history is not kept, but existing history from normal mode is still there and can be accessed if you are in Private Browsing - Use Firefox without saving history mode.

If you want to prevent that then you need to clear the history after you enter Private Browsing mode.