can I use session restore but also sanitize history? [solved: no: instead disable history in the first place and don't sanitize it on close]

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🟪 REQUIRED INFO

• Browser version & OS:
• Steps to Reproduce (STR): Have tabs open and close the browser.
• Expected result: Have the tabs restored with the browser history erased.
• Actual result: Tabs and history erased.
• Console errors and warnings: None.
• Anything else you deem worth mentioning:

I have added these as instructed:

user_pref("browser.startup.page", 3); // 0102
  // user_pref("browser.privatebrowsing.autostart", false); // 0110 required if you had it set as true
  // user_pref("places.history.enabled", true); // 0862 required if you had it set as false
user_pref("browser.sessionstore.privacy_level", 0); // 1003 [to restore cookies/formdata if not sanitized]
  // user_pref("network.cookie.lifetimePolicy", 0); // 2801 [DON'T: add cookie + site data exceptions instead]
user_pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.history", false); // 2811
  // user_pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.cookies", false); // 2811 optional: default false arkenfox v94
  // user_pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.formdata", false); // 2811 optional
user_pref("privacy.cpd.history", false); // 2812 to match when you use Ctrl-Shift-Del
  // user_pref("privacy.cpd.cookies", false); // 2812 optional: default false arkenfox v94
  // user_pref("privacy.cpd.formdata", false); // 2812 optional

However, this makes both the tabs and the history to not be erased on close, I was wondering if we could keep the tabs, but have the history erased only.

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[rusty-snake]

Then both the browser history and the tabs are restored on closing, I want the tabs to be restored but the history to be erased, is that possible?

No, if you set privacy.clearOnShutdown.history=true SR does not work. What does work however is disabling history (5013) and SR.

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/662eddbc2124d9d09774da7d5bc385f45c287c0d/user.js#L1025-L1028

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

No, if you set privacy.clearOnShutdown.history=true SR does not work.

thank you Rusty for doing what was asked. You had one job, one pref … sigh

What does work however is disabling history (5013)

not sure what the trailing and SR means. So there you go, thanks Rusty, a solution: you will not have any history during your sessions, and no history can be restored, and you do not need to sanitize history on close (and thus it won’t nuke SR - IDK why clearing history on shutdown (or manually?) nukes SR, it just how everything was engineered from way back in the Before Times)