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I checked Firefox 60.2 in PCLinuxOS and the feature you mentioned is disabled by default, Mageia same,OpenMandriva same. Rosa appears to have either a bug or they did something by choice. OpenMandriva and Rosa are linked at the hip, so I dont understand why OM is ok and Rosa has it enabled by default.
Also cant explain why the first test on Rosa should it disabled by default. It hasnt happened since.
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Yeah, it's driving me nuts. I hate the "tabs in recently used" as it takes me forever to figure out how to get to the tab I want. I'm betting it's an error, as when I close Firefox, it actually deletes the preference that controls that from the prefs.js file. Then recreates upon opening. If I manually create the line in prefs.js, it simply overwrites it upon re-opening firefox.
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I use private browsing mode all the time so tabs are meaningless to me. Im sure in your case that wouldnt be an option.
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I use private browsing a lot for work (not really because I care about private browsing, just because I need to have the same site opened with multiple logins), but yeah, personally, I very rarely use it. I get mostly the same effect as I have all my browsers set to delete all cache, cookies, data upon closing (using an extension to accomplish that on Chromium).
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I only use Firefox most of the time so it comes in handy. I also clear everything upon closing and use bleachbit to purge anything missed.
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I've found with the newer Firefox if you set up the preferences correctly, there's not much it misses. It used to leave website data, but now even has the ability to delete that upon closing. Still not yet perfect, but there's not a lot it misses now.
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Thats ok as private browsing mode makes sure of that.
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Fair number of updates including Firefox 60.2 and Mesa 18.
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Enjoying Rosa a lot and considering using it as my steady distro if the long term testing goes well. It offers more than Neptune(extra apps and FF60 Quantum) and I prefer KDE so it gives me what MX17 cant.
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I've already wiped it. The Firefox issue is a complete deal breaker for me. Not having my preferred browser be usable for myself is just...absolutely infuriating (also why I can't use any distro that offers ONLY Firefox 52).
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