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How to disable history from new tab page without disabling the new tab page entirely?

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mscheaf
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As the title states. I have read countless questions on this and none ever give a working answer. So I will try again. I think it is absolutely ridiculous that even though I delete my browsing history after every time, my browsing history still shows up on the new tab page. Which proves that Firefox is actually NOT deleting my browsing history like it says. So how do I STOP that from happening? I don't want my browsing history to show up anywhere. At all. Ever. For any reason. Is that impossible with Firefox? That would put it in first place for world's worst browser if your browsing history is permanent like mine is right now. Huge security hole much?? So how do I make it stop once and for all. But I still want the new tab page there, but ONLY with the sites I have pinned to it. Nothing else. EVER.

As the title states. I have read countless questions on this and none ever give a working answer. So I will try again. I think it is absolutely ridiculous that even though I delete my browsing history after every time, my browsing history still shows up on the new tab page. Which proves that Firefox is actually NOT deleting my browsing history like it says. So how do I STOP that from happening? I don't want my browsing history to show up anywhere. At all. Ever. For any reason. Is that impossible with Firefox? That would put it in first place for world's worst browser if your browsing history is permanent like mine is right now. Huge security hole much?? So how do I make it stop once and for all. But I still want the new tab page there, but ONLY with the sites I have pinned to it. Nothing else. EVER.

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user633449
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First off, let's start by updating you to the latest Firefox, 32.0.3. (Update Firefox to the latest release). Firefox 20, which you are running, is suspect to MANY security issues (including one fixed just yesterday that affects the entire internet and allows websites to pretend to be any website they want to be), plus it has it's own bugs and issues in Firefox itself.

After you've updated, let's see if we can't get this sorted out. Are you saying that when you clear your history the new tab page doesn't clear? Are you using the default new tab page or do you have any new tab page add-ons installed?

mscheaf
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I don't have the memory to run the latest version. I tried that and it consistently ran at over 2gb of RAM being used on a 4GB system. Nope, can't do that. And that was a fresh install with a fresh profile and no ad ons. This is the newest version I have found that doesn't use too much ram. As soon as Firefox stops the memory leaks that have plagued them forever, I will upgrade.

user633449
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Firefox should never use that much memory, so if you are still seeing that with 32 (we've done some recent memory improvements) then we can totally help with that :) Please try to update, and then let me know if you still see memory issues.

If you do, please go to about:support in your URL bar, and copy that information into that thread.