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!

        • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
          41·
          1 year ago

          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.

                • ItsYaBoyNoodles@lemm.ee
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  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?

                • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
                  21·
                  1 year ago

                  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.

                • Gherhartd S.@ludosphere.fr
                  0·
                  1 year ago

                  @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.

    • callyral@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      You mean “recent bookmarks”? Huh, never noticed that was there. I think it’s probably locally stored and not really a thing websites can just access.

        • grue@lemmy.ml
          11·
          1 year ago

          After reading the parent comment, I [think I] finally understand what you’re on about.

          1. There’s no reason to suspect the “recently bookmarked” list would be tracked; that’s just downright paranoid.

          2. Here’s how to disable it.

                • grue@lemmy.ml
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Try changing the capitalization or using “0” instead of false or something. Otherwise, I give up and you should ask for help in a Mozilla forum or chatroom.

                • grue@lemmy.ml
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  boolean is a totally different thing in 3d software. It’s where you remove something from another something or combine.

                  Nah, it’s exactly the same thing. 3D software is just applying a Boolean function to two sets of points at the same time, instead of one scaler piece of data like reading a setting.

                  In other words, Firefox is doing f(a), where f is a unary Boolean function (identity or negation) and a is a single true/false value, while your 3D software is doing f(A, B), where f is a binary Boolean function (union a.k.a. AND, intersection a.k.a. OR, etc.) and A and B are vectors of true/false values representing whether particular points of space are contained within object A or B respectively.

                  (Some 3D software might be more sophisticated than that, using mathematical expressions of the object boundaries to get exact answers instead of interpolating between points, but I’m just trying to convey the basic concept here.)

    • Acedelgado@artemis.camp
      2·
      1 year ago

      Are you talking about them syncing to your Firefox account? Because you can turn that off or just not sign in.

        • monad@programming.dev
          21·
          1 year ago

          The whole point of bookmarks is that they are saved sites so why would they automatically delete them? Also just click on Manage Bookmarks or Manage History and you can delete anything from there… If you don’t want history to be saved then use a private window.

            • monad@programming.dev
              41·
              1 year ago

              You don’t want them to save the order of your bookmarks? why

              I’m actually very happy to see your comment as it means Lemmy might actually not just be full of tech nerds, because it’s clear you have no idea what you’re talking about or don’t know how to properly communicate your issue.

                • monad@programming.dev
                  21·
                  1 year ago

                  Firefox isn’t tracking your bookmarks and selling it to advertisers, Firefox is open source. They keep your bookmark order as convenience so that you can have them in the order you like. Same goes for history, it’s just a tool to see what sites you’ve visited if you’re trying to get back to one, it’s not tracking you.

    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
      11·
      1 year ago

      …but you can?

      Right click any bookmark under the hamburger menu, and select Delete Bookmark. It deletes. You can also delete all in the bookmark manager. But those seem like a non-issue, since they have to be manually created.

      Same thing works under History in the hamburger menu. Right-click any item in history and select Delete Page. It deletes. Same as above, all can be deleted in manager or by selecting Clear Recent History > Time Range to Clear = Everything.

      Firefox will not store history at all if you go to Settings > Privacy and Security > set “Firefox will” to “Never remember history”.

      So… ?

        • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
          2·
          1 year ago

          You can’t right click and delete it from the history.

          I tried it before commenting. You can.

          But if it’s saving your history while being set otherwise, it sounds like you have a config issue.

            • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
              1·
              1 year ago

              It’s going to be hard to diagnose, ultimately (e.g. what system are you running it on? What version of Firefox is it?). But the short answer is: it’s always possible something is compromised. You could uninstall it completely and reinstall fresh from Mozilla (again), in which case you should see identical behavior to what myself and others have mentioned.

    • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
      510·
      1 year ago

      Wait, what? You don’t want them to save bookmarks? Then what is the use of a bookmark? And you can definitely set your browser to erase your history every time you close it.

        • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
          210·
          1 year ago

          I don’t see it as an issue since its locally stored if you don’t have sync turned on. This will only be an issue if your device is compromised, and in such instances your bookmarks would be the least of your worries.