I am a little confused. If I follow the tutorial in its enitirety, it will delete cookies and history every tiime I close FF, isn't that what you said not to do? So what do I check and what don't I check. He was under tools>options, I was under tools>clear history, so which one do I do?
Sorry, don't follow the tutorial in its entirety. I only wanted you to see what it looked like. Follow the tutorial up to Step 4. Instead of doing step 4, Uncheck that option.
FF 9.0.1 is the current version.
FF 10 will probably be out in the next couple of weeks.
Automatic FF UpdateManual FF Update
If you want to do manual updates, uncheck "Firefox" in the location shown in the picture above.
You will then need to visit the location shown in the picture below, to update Firefox.
Ok, dustsailor, under the privacy menu everything is checked except the last one of clearing history. I don't understand it all, but I don't care. Now when I go to tools > clear history, I have all of them checked and I don't think I should have, right? So which ones should I have checked when I clean things up?
Select none of them (But you told me you have to select at least one). But I don't think those options matter, because you selected not to delete things when firefox closes. So you shouldn't have to even be bothered by going into that menu, so you might just let it be.
That way firefox will remember things so it doesn't have to constantly search for them, thus making it go a little faster.
So I don't ever go into "clear recent history" or "options", to clean things out?
No, only if you post a problem here on Sevenforums and someone recommends you do it in order to rule out faulty internet files. There is no real reason to do it except in troubleshooting problems.
You know how you said to follow that tutorial and do what it said - well I just went back and checked and the things that I checked or unchecked didn't stay that way, even though I clicked on okay. There was no save or anything
Well that isn't the place you are supposed to be. it will automatically be like that, but it shouldn't matter because the box I had you uncheck prevents that from automatically clearing the data. It should be fine anyhow, you're all set Patti :)
That's unusual.
I just tried it on my FF and it remembered the options I unchecked.
Try running FF as "Administrator" (you shouldn't have to do this):
- Right click on the FF and select "Run as administrator".
- Make the changes that you want.
- Exit FF.
- Start FF normally and check the settings.
You should only have to select "Remember History" to completely disable "Auto-Cleanup".You could also update to the latest version (it is supposed to be faster). :)
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