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history is always cleared when I exit Firefox

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My privacy is set to remember history, every time I start up ff all history is forgotten. "clear history when ff closes" is NOT checked. Getting to be a pain, especially for forums.

My privacy is set to remember history, every time I start up ff all history is forgotten. "clear history when ff closes" is NOT checked. Getting to be a pain, especially for forums.

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  • Make sure that you do not use Delete browsing, search and download history on Firefox to clear the Browsing History.
  • Make sure that the History is set to at least 1 day: Tools > Options > Privacy > History: "Remember visited pages for at least"
  • Make sure that you do not start Firefox in Private Browsing mode (Tools > Stop Private Browsing is grayed, see Private Browsing - Use Firefox without saving history)
  • To see History and Cookie settings in Tools > Options > Privacy, choose the setting "Firefox will: Use custom settings for history"

You can look at these prefs on the about:config page.

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.

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Thanks for your reply. My settings are OK. So far, it looks to be ONLY a certain site I use all the time. Something must have changed somewhere because at one time it did remember. Try it and see if it works for you. I have this problem on both computers, one was just clean installed 3 days ago.

http://www.nj.com/forums/politics/index.ssf

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PS you have to completely close FF.

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Do you mean the history as you see it in the History sidebar or Library or history as in marking visited links with a visited color?

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>>marking visited links with a visited color

This