I found deleting all cookies upon exit to be really nice, in combination with a whitelist with some often used and trusted sites. The address/search bar is much more responsive and useful! I also adapted the practice of bookmarking anything and everything that I might want to find back later, throwing everything in one folder – only adding a few top-of-the head tags. It has become my second brain, and has made it super easy to fetch back stuff that I only vaguely remember.

Cleaning out all my browser history after every exit really has changed my relationship with the address bar.

Another way of looking at this method is as an antidote to ending up with hundreds of open tabs – I just bookmark it and close it, knowing I'll find it back later when I actually need it :)

It tripped me up too initially, but they added a nice workaround to it so one doesn't need to disable the deleting cookies completely.

On the pages where you want to stay logged in like in HN, click the lock icon left of the URL and toggle "LibreWolf: Always store cookies/data for this site" and that's it.

There's certainly something refreshing about knowing exactly for which sites I'm storing cookies (so far kagi, HN, gmail, YT...)

Interesting. This is actually behavior that I already prefer and enable in Firefox. It makes sense when you leave browser instances open for long periods of time (with multi-account containers for a large number of tabs that you save and restore the session of) and use a password manager to sign in when you do restart.