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I changed preferences to Remember history but it doesn't stick, help!

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doraoh
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I had changed it to custom settings but was not happy with how that was working, so I changed it back and rebooted. However, I cannot get the "remember history" preference to stick, it keeps going back to Use custom settings.

I had changed it to custom settings but was not happy with how that was working, so I changed it back and rebooted. However, I cannot get the "remember history" preference to stick, it keeps going back to Use custom settings.

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FredMcD
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-fix-preferences-wont-save

cor-el
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Firefox shows "Use custom settings for history" as an indication that at least one of the history and cookie settings is not the default to make you aware that changes were made. If all History settings are default then the custom settings are hidden and you see "Firefox will: (Never) Remember History". "Never Remember History" means that Private Browsing is active and "Always use private browsing mode" gets a checkmark. "Use custom settings for history" stays selected if at least one of the History or Cookie settings is not the default to make you aware that changes from the default setting have been made.