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I have selected a weather city (in Florida) to be displayed on my home page. It keeps changing to New York. How can I stop this from happening?

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Josie3
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on my home page I have selected a city in Florida to display the current weather there. However the city I have selected keeps changing to New York every time I sign back on. How can this be corrected?

on my home page I have selected a city in Florida to display the current weather there. However the city I have selected keeps changing to New York every time I sign back on. How can this be corrected?

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It is possible that these details are stored in a cookie as posted above by John99.

  • Create a cookie 'allow' exception to keep such cookies, especially in case of secure websites and when cookies expire when Firefox is closed.
  • Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: Exceptions

In case you are using "Clear history when Firefox closes":

  • do not clear the Cookies
  • do not clear the Site Preferences

Note that clearing "Site Preferences" clears all exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, software installation, passwords, and other website specific data.

Clearing cookies will remove all specified (selected) cookies including cookies with an allow exception that you would like to keep.

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John99
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Maybe the site uses cookies to help remember your choice. If you use private browsing, or clear cookies or clean them up with some utility that may result in the site defaulting to something else such as the capital city. See

cor-el
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Chosen Solution

It is possible that these details are stored in a cookie as posted above by John99.

  • Create a cookie 'allow' exception to keep such cookies, especially in case of secure websites and when cookies expire when Firefox is closed.
  • Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: Exceptions

In case you are using "Clear history when Firefox closes":

  • do not clear the Cookies
  • do not clear the Site Preferences

Note that clearing "Site Preferences" clears all exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, software installation, passwords, and other website specific data.

Clearing cookies will remove all specified (selected) cookies including cookies with an allow exception that you would like to keep.