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"Remember Passwords" is greyed out.

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"Remember Passwords" is greyed out. I tried "about:config" and "signon.RememberSignons" is set to False, and locked, so that I cannot set it to True. I followed the steps in the answers to similar Qs on this forum. Any suggestions? thank you v.m.

"Remember Passwords" is greyed out. I tried "about:config" and "signon.RememberSignons" is set to False, and locked, so that I cannot set it to True. I followed the steps in the answers to similar Qs on this forum. Any suggestions? thank you v.m.

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hello, firefox won't save your passwords when you've set it up to run in permanent private browsing mode ("never remember history" in the options > privacy panel).

Settings for privacy, browsing history and do-not-track

My privacy setting is already set to "Remember History". thank you.

could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

Check for the presence of a mozilla.cfg file in the Firefox program folder to initialize some prefs.

This also involves the presence of a .js (JScript) file, probably in "defaults\pref" folder, that specifies to process this mozilla.cfg file.

If you have .js files apart from the channel-prefs.js file, that sets app.update.channel, in the defaults\pref folder then open this file in an editor like Notepad and please post its content. Also please post the content of the mozilla.cfg file.

There shouldn't be a mozilla.fcg file present unless you've created it yourself to initialize some prefs.

If you have this mozilla.cfg file then best is to do a clean reinstall and delete the Firefox program folder before reinstalling a fresh copy of Firefox.