I have to login to sync every time I restart Firefox

I use Firefox Sync (in Firefox 4.0.1) on two deskcomputers (Apple Mac). I succeeded in setting up an account and syncing everything.
But each time I close and re-open Firefox I have to set up Sync again. This includes filling out my sync key.
This doesn't seem normal to me. Is this due to the Firefox preferences where I tell Firefox to delete its history (except cookies)?
And if this is the case, what information must Firefox keep in order to make Sync work?

Sounds that the server sends the page with the wrong encoding because if the server sends an encoding then that prevails and you need to use the "Firefox > Web Developer" menu or on XP possibly "View > Character Encoding" in the menu bar is visible to change the encoding to Unicode.<br />
If you have the orange Firefox menu button then you can set the browser.menu.showCharacterEncoding pref to true on the <b>about:config</b> page for easier access.
I don't know if there are still extensions to set the encoding that work properly in current Firefox releases, but you can have a look on the Add-ons site.

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