Firefox does not prompt me to clear private data when I close the program

Firefox used to pop up a window and ask if I want to clear private data whenever I quit from the program. Now there is no prompt from Firefox anymore. I checked the settings and it still has "clear history when Firefox closes" selected.
So is this normal?
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== Recently, less than a month.

AskForSanitize: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/13015

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