why firefox keeps deleting my settings
why one of the new updates keeps deleting my settings and preferences?
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Hello extraprase,
Hoping that I'm not misconstruing your question - would you please take a look at this article :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-fix-preferences-wont-save
Does that help ?
well a bit too much information for me. what I tried to avoid any potential bugs and corrupt files, I removed the program from my computer and downloaded and installed it again. It did succeed however whilst installing this showed up. (tried twice with same experience) no idea what´s up with that. will try using it and see if the settings stay (it´s basic settings like what opens after new launch, default search engine..)
I got the feeling that you did not install Firefox from here (which you should do) :
https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/
(and choose your preferred language)
Then re that screenshot you provided - would you take a look at this please :
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-register-server-stopped-working-windows
here I downloaded it from https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/
extraprase said
here I downloaded it from https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/
Nothing wrong with that ......
Did you follow the steps in the article I gave you a link to ?
I´m affraid it´s a bit too complicated to understand it.
Anyways I´ve reinstalled it again and it happened again. Interesting for me was that after the fresh install the default search engine was Google so I let that setting be but after changing the other settings and relaunching it it appeared with Bing...
extraprase said
Anyways I´ve reinstalled it again and it happened again.
What happened again ? As shown in your screenshot ?
Interesting for me was that after the fresh install the default search engine was Google so I let that setting be but after changing the other settings and relaunching it it appeared with Bing...
"after changing the other settings" ......
What settings did you change ?
I'm not sure if this is what you should check, but giving you this to take a look at :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-search-settings-firefox
and :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox
I changed to open in the sessions where I ended last time, made sure the default search engine is Google and to always ask where to save downloaded files.
extraprase said
I changed to open in the sessions where I ended last time, made sure the default search engine is Google and to always ask where to save downloaded files.
If those preferences won't save, I can't think of anything else right now than to ask you once again to read this article :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-fix-preferences-wont-save