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Cleared all the history, but recent tabs & windows still remained in version 6.

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Cleared all the history (selected everything except saved passwords), but recent tabs & windows still remained in firefox version 6 (Win XP 32-bit). No such problem when using version 4. Skipped version 5 and updated to version 6. A bug with the clear history function ??

Cleared all the history (selected everything except saved passwords), but recent tabs & windows still remained in firefox version 6 (Win XP 32-bit). No such problem when using version 4. Skipped version 5 and updated to version 6. A bug with the clear history function ??

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You can only remove that last window if you restore that window and close all tabs in that window, so it is best to avoid closing a window that still have tabs opened.

Set the pref browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false on the about:config page to prevent closing the last tab from closing the browser and make a close button appear if only one tab is open.

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You can (temporarily) set the pref browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo to 0 to clear the "Recently Closed Tabs" list. If you want to re-use the "Recently Closed Tabs" feature (Undo Closed Tabs) then you can reset the pref browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo to the default value via the right-click context menu.

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cor-el, thanks for the temporarily solution. Managed to clear the recently tabs, but still had 1 recent window even after I set the value to 0. Hope the tech team can fix the problem permanently.

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You can only remove that last window if you restore that window and close all tabs in that window, so it is best to avoid closing a window that still have tabs opened.

Set the pref browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false on the about:config page to prevent closing the last tab from closing the browser and make a close button appear if only one tab is open.