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Firefox 5 won't let me disable history

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Ubuntuser
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I recently installed Firefox 5.0 on my Ubuntu 10.10 system and I am having trouble customizing Firefox to work like my previous 3.6 system. Namely, I cannot seem to find a way to disable history. On Firefox 3.6 I could go to Edit > Preferences > Privacy > Custom settings for history and untick the "Remember my Browsing History" checkmark, and so I did that with my 5.0 install yet Firefox still behaves as if the checkmark was still checked and still remembers history.

I recently installed Firefox 5.0 on my Ubuntu 10.10 system and I am having trouble customizing Firefox to work like my previous 3.6 system. Namely, I cannot seem to find a way to disable history. On Firefox 3.6 I could go to Edit > Preferences > Privacy > Custom settings for history and untick the "Remember my Browsing History" checkmark, and so I did that with my 5.0 install yet Firefox still behaves as if the checkmark was still checked and still remembers history.

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cor-el
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Maybe that is a problem with the Ubuntu Firefox Modifications extension.

Ubuntuser
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Thanks for your reply, unfortunately the problem still persists even when running with add-ons fully disabled in safe mode.

cor-el
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Did you try safe mode to see if another extension is causing it?

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