Firefox keeps randomly changing Clear History settings to also clear Saved Passwords.
I have "Clear history when Firefox closes" selected but the "Saved Passwords" option is unchecked.
After a couple of days the "Saved Passwords" option becomes automatically selected. I am certain that nobody is manually changing these settings but the change happens nevertheless.
This breaks my Sync and it drives me crazy. Any ideas how to fix this problem?
Modified by tom23424
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
If you do not keep changes after a restart or otherwise have problems with preferences, see:
Some external security, privacy, or "clean up" software may alter Firefox settings. It's worth checking their settings to see if there is anything browser related that could be causing this.
@cor-el @jscher2000 Thank you very much for suggestions! I strongly suspect that the problem was caused by a password manager plugin. Only when I reinstalled it I realized that it has an option to allow saving passwords also in the Firefox password manager. Hopefully this solved the problem.