History is always cleared when I exit Firefox

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.

* Make sure that you do not use [[Clear Recent History]] 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]])
* 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.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.history_expire_days (180) (also affects saved form data)
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.history_expire_days_min (90)
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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*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
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*do not clear the Cookies
*do not clear the Site Preferences
*Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history": [X] "Clear history when Firefox closes" > Settings
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/remove-recent-browsing-search-and-download-history
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*Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
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Build Configuration about:buildconfig
Memory Use about:memory
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