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ATTN FIREFOX DESIGNERS AND PROGRAMMERS: I upgraded to firefox 4 and noticed that the "remember my browsing history for at least x day" is gone any chance of this being brought back?

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the setting for customizing the number of days the history is retained is gone

the setting for customizing the number of days the history is retained is gone

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the-edmeister
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Mozilla changed the way the cache and browsing history works in Firefox 4.0+ versions, and they removed that "Remember my browsing history for at least ___ days" preference. "At least" has basically become forever now.

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