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The 'Never Remember History" does not stay checked. Is there a fix?

digger89
digger89
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64 Vista 18.0.2

64 Vista 18.0.2
  • Question details
    Product Firefox
    Topic Privacy and security settings
    System Details
    • Windows Vista
    • Firefox 18.0

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  • User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0

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ideato
ideato 893 solutions 6250 answers
Posted

Hello digger89, see Corrupt or damaged prefs.js file

see also for more info : How to fix preferences that won't save


thank you

Hello digger89, see [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved#Corrupt_or_damaged_prefs.js_file Corrupt or damaged prefs.js file] see also for more info : [http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-fix-preferences-wont-save#os=win7&browser=fx18 How to fix preferences that won't save] thank you
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Do you see the "Use custom settings for history" choice?

Firefox shows the "Use custom settings for history" selection as an indication that at least one of the history and cookie settings is not the default to make you aware that changes were made.
If all History settings are default then the custom settings are hidden and you see "Firefox will: (Never) Remember History".
"Never Remember History" means that Private Browsing is active and "Always use private browsing mode" gets a check mark.

Do you see the "Use custom settings for history" choice? Firefox shows the "Use custom settings for history" selection as an indication that at least one of the history and cookie settings is not the default to make you aware that changes were made.<br /> If all History settings are default then the custom settings are hidden and you see "Firefox will: (Never) Remember History".<br /> "Never Remember History" means that Private Browsing is active and "Always use private browsing mode" gets a check mark.