Trouble Remembering Firefox Settings

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solon fox

Hi,

I am using Windows Vista Ultimate and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows
NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13.


The OS, Firefox and Norton Antivirus/Firewall, etc are current.


Firefox add-ons include:
Addblock Plus 0.7.5.3
Greasemonkey 0.7.2008.0121.0
Image Zoom 0.3.1
MM3 ProxySwitch 2007.340
Stealther 1.0.1
Talkback 2.0.0.11


Each time I restart Firefox, he forgets his homepage and always
starts
at http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:....
He also forgets the last proxy settings whether on or off (I
frequently switch between a VPN requiring proxies and a non-VPN
connection with no proxies).


Firefox's inability to remember these settings is a minor
inconvenience to be sure, but it is also really annoying.


Does anyone have any suggestions? I've knocked myself out looking for
some hidden setting in Firefox. I have also done a complete uninstall
and install of Firefox to no avail. I have disabled all add-ons and
attempted it that way too. I have checked and rechecked my file
permissions.


Help?


-solon fox

p.s. In case you care, I also use IE7. I use both browsers for
testing.
 
M

Malke

solon said:
Hi,

I am using Windows Vista Ultimate and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows
NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13.
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(snippage)

If the issue is only with Firefox, you should post in one of its very active
user forums. Go to mozilla.org and look for them.

Malke
 
S

solon fox

(snippage)

If the issue is only with Firefox, you should post in one of its very active
user forums. Go to mozilla.org and look for them.

Malke
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Hi Malke,

Thanks for the advice. Of course, I did post to
mozilla.support.firefox yesterday and have yet to receive any replies.
I'm wondering if it isn't a permissions thing, like my profile isn't
saved, but I haven't received any error messages and I can't find any
files that I am not the owner.

I can live with it, but it is annoying. When I first started using
Firefox, it didn't have the problem. It first appeared months ago, but
I've tried everything I can think of since the first time it started
forgetting and gotten no where.

I thought maybe someone here might say, oh I remember when that
happened to me and it was such and such.

At least you took the trouble to acknowledge me.

Thanks,

-solon
 
S

solon fox

Hi Malke,

Thanks for the advice. Of course, I did post to
mozilla.support.firefox yesterday and have yet to receive any replies.
I'm wondering if it isn't a permissions thing, like my profile isn't
saved, but I haven't received any error messages and I can't find any
files that I am not the owner.

I can live with it, but it is annoying. When I first started using
Firefox, it didn't have the problem. It first appeared months ago, but
I've tried everything I can think of since the first time it started
forgetting and gotten no where.

I thought maybe someone here might say, oh I remember when that
happened to me and it was such and such.

At least you took the trouble to acknowledge me.

Thanks,

-solon- Hide quoted text -

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My thanks to a helper in another forum. Problem solved by deleting
prefs.js and user.js from %APPDATA%

-solon fox
 
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