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'clear recent history', 'start private brosing' and 'clear history when firefox closes' disabled

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The 'clear recent history', 'start private brosing' and 'clear history when firefox closes' have been disabled and are in grey instead of black type. I recently installed the Ad Block Plus anti-ad program - could this be the culprit ? How do I restore these please ? Many thanks for your help.

The 'clear recent history', 'start private brosing' and 'clear history when firefox closes' have been disabled and are in grey instead of black type. I recently installed the Ad Block Plus anti-ad program - could this be the culprit ? How do I restore these please ? Many thanks for your help.

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Why are you not upgrade your browser to Firefox 7

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If you have enabled Always use private browsing mode, then the options you mentions will be grayed out since private browsing already does those options.