How do I stop firefox from logging every site I visit on about:permissions?

Except when I go Private Window, every time I visit a new webpage the website goes on the about:permissions list. How do I stop it from doing this? Ever since I made a new profile it does this

I'm still running Firefox 21. I recognize the sites in about:permissions but I can't figure out the pattern for what is included and what is excluded... certainly it's not my entire history, but it's not limited to sites with non-default settings or a non-zero cookie count. Hmmm...

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