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about:preferences#privacyI see a bunch of options:Off the top of my head that should handle most cases where your history pops up onto the screen without being explicitly requested.
It would be really cool to have a stream/present mode extension that could provide a one-click or automatic toggle for these options. But unfortunately with the new extensions API this probably isn’t possible anymore.
Make a bookmark for important websites while putting that bookmark into a separate folder so it doesn’t show on the launch screen.
Use Firefox Profiles! You can type “about:profiles” into the URL bar, then you’ll get a dialog for managing profiles. Create a new one and that will be like a factory-reset Firefox, so bookmarks, extensions etc. are also separate. It’s basically like copy-pasting the configuration folder.
You can also launch a similar profile dialog from the command-line with
firefox -P, or launch a specific profile withfirefox -P myProfile.Just go in private mode, no?
For me Private Browsing windows still complete from history, they just don’t save new history.
This happens for me as well.
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Using two browsers is the easiest. I set one browser (Chromium) to always delete history and another (Firefox) to retain it. This way I have a private browser and don’t have to fiddle around with profiles. Although Chromium has a pretty neat way for multi user profiles if you’d rather use a single browser. Firefox can have a command line flag to open a different browser profile aswell (so you can put it in a link on your desktop or taskbar).