Can Firefox be set to clear history automaticaly when closed?

I want to set Firefox to delete the brousing history automatically and can't figure out how to do it. I just installed Firefox, so all of the settings and toolbar displays are at their installation defaults. I know this can be done on IE, can it be done on Firefox or do I have to manually do it every time?

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