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Firefox clears my history when closed even though preferences are set to Remember.

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Firefox clears my history each time Firefox is closed even though preferences are set to Remember.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== Not sure.

Firefox clears my history each time Firefox is closed even though preferences are set to Remember. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == Not sure.

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cor-el
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Did you check the Clear Recent History settings to make sure that you do not clear the browser history? See Delete browsing, search and download history on Firefox

You can look at these prefs on the about:config page. http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.history_expire_days (180) (also affects saved form data) http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.history_expire_days_min (90)

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the Enter key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website. If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.