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Cannot access recent history and the stop private browsing icon and the clear recent history icon will not let me click on it

AnonymousUser
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I have not been able to see any recent history on the internet lately. I used to be able to check it all the time but now it is all history from at least a month ago and is not being updated. Also, under the "tools" bar, the clear recent history icon and the stop private browsing are grey instead of black and i can not click on them.

I have not been able to see any recent history on the internet lately. I used to be able to check it all the time but now it is all history from at least a month ago and is not being updated. Also, under the "tools" bar, the clear recent history icon and the stop private browsing are grey instead of black and i can not click on them.

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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You probably have Automatically start Firefox in a Private Browsing session selected in the Privacy tab in Options. That will cause those Tools menu items to be greyed-out. And when using that Option the (Private Browsing) line doesn't show in the Titlebar. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Private+Browsing

AnonymousUser
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....and it's not because of the "Automatically start Firefox in a Private Browsing session" is selected.