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I use Private Browsing and cookies and history are deleted when I close Firefox. How do I delete cokies etc when I close a page.

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Salarboy
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Firefox deletes cookies and hstory when I close the browser. However, when I close a page cookies etc are not deleted. Please advise how to do this.

Firefox deletes cookies and hstory when I close the browser. However, when I close a page cookies etc are not deleted. Please advise how to do this.

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When you are in Private Browsing mode then all PB mode personal data including the cookies should be discarded automatically when you close Firefox or close all PB mode windows.

When you are in permanent PB mode then you can't remove data stored from a regular session. You need to start Firefox normally to remove this data.

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philipp
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hi, you could do so with an addon like https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/

cor-el
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Suluhisho teule

When you are in Private Browsing mode then all PB mode personal data including the cookies should be discarded automatically when you close Firefox or close all PB mode windows.

When you are in permanent PB mode then you can't remove data stored from a regular session. You need to start Firefox normally to remove this data.