Ipad/safari wont track browse history when private not selected. Fix?

Played around with Safari/ipad settings and deleted all browsing history. Now it doesnt track website history at all even when private isnt manually selected. Have I changed a default? Want it to track History now and cant find an obvious fix!

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Agreed, going to Firefox is the step in the right privacy direction.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/2131205/facebook-cookies-track-users-even -after-logging-out
AdBlock Plus, BetterPrivacy, Ghostery, Click&Clean and yes even NoScript (drag a Temp allow all button to the toolbar)
To deny your computer from accessing Facebook
In Admin user
sudo pico /etc/hosts
Arrow down below the material you see there and don't change it
add
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.net
control x to exit and save.
another easier way (can use in Standard User this way) is to use the free TextWrangler and open file by name:
/etc/hosts
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Back up all data before making any changes. Please take each of the following steps until the problem is resolved.
Step 1
If Adobe Reader or Acrobat is installed, and the problem is just that you can't print PDF's displayed in Safari, you may be able to print by moving the cursor to the the bottom edge of the page, somewhere near the middle. A black toolbar may appear under the cursor. Click the printer icon.
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There should be a setting in its preferences of the Adobe application such as Display PDF in Browser. I don't use those applications myself, so I can't be more precise. Deselect that setting, if it's selected.
Step 3
If you get a message such as ""Adobe Reader blocked for this website," then from the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Security
and check the box marked
Allow Plug-ins
Then click
Manage Website Settings...
and make any required changes to the security settings for the Adobe PDF plugin.
Step 4
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it, the copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
/Library/Internet Plug-ins
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-G. Paste into the text box that opens (command-V), then press return.
From the folder that opens, move to the Trash any items that have "Adobe" or “PDF” in the name. You may be prompted for your login password. Then quit and relaunch Safari.
Step 5
The "Silverlight" web plugin distributed by Microsoft can interfere with PDF display in Safari, so you may need to remove it, if it's present. The same goes for a plugin called "iGetter," and perhaps others — I don't have a complete list. Don't remove Silverlight if you use the "Netflix" video-streaming service.
Step 6
Do as in Step 3 with this line:
~/Library/Internet Plug-ins
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What to Do When Your iPad Won't Turn On
http://ipad.about.com/od/iPad_Troubleshooting/ss/What-To-Do-When-Your-Ipad-Wo-No t-Turn-On.htm
iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3281
iPad Frozen? How to Force Quit an App, Reset or Restart Your iPad
http://ipadacademy.com/2010/11/ipad-frozen-how-to-force-quit-an-app-reset-or-res tart-your-ipad
iPad: Basic troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3274
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After upgrading to Firefox 3.6.11, the browser does not see my previous browsing history, and does not save new history. places.sqlite is still in place. Is there a way to fix this without erasing previous history?

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Safari wont open...says server not found

I recently changed my Gmail password and now I cannot get into my email on my ipad Help ???

You probably are not making internet connection via wifi.
Look at iOS Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1398
iPad: Issues connecting to Wi-Fi networks http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3304
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Try this first. Turn Off your iPad. Then turn Off (disconnect power cord) the wireless router & then back On. Now boot your iPad. Hopefully it will see the WiFi.
Change the channel on your wireless router. Instructions at http://macintoshhowto.com/advanced/how-to-get-a-good-range-on-your-wireless-netw ork.html
How to Quickly Fix iPad 3 Wi-Fi Reception Problems
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iPad Wi-Fi Problems: Comprehensive List of Fixes
http://appletoolbox.com/2010/04/ipad-wi-fi-problems-comprehensive-list-of-fixes/
Fix iPad Wifi Connection and Signal Issues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwWtIG5jUxE
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How do I restore old history even after not selecting the restore

I did not get a chance to select the restore feature and firefox exited with a lot of import tabs and links up. Then, it just restored an instance with one tab, instead of the many tabs with important info. I see there is a book mark history, is there a session history for previously used tabs and their urls? Unfortunately, I had just before that, selected, to close history when firefox exits and when it crashed, it cleared that history.

There still may be hope. Find your Firefox profile and look for a file called sessionstore.bak. This is a backup file of your sessions.
Delete the sessionstore.js file then rename sessionstore.bak to sessionstore.js. Then open Firefox. Make sure Firefox is closed during all these steps.
To find your Firefox profile:
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/profiles#How_to_find_your_profile

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I find this a bit odd.
I was having Safari (v3.2.1) problems in that it was hanging only a few seconds after launch and followed the advice I read on a couple of threads to launch Safari holding down the shift key.
I'm not sure if it was that or re-installing Safari or resetting it or deleting preferences or caches because by the time it had started working again I had done all of the above so many times I had lost count. That said, re-installing Safari on its own might not have worked but carrying out all the other procedures afterwards seems to have done something.
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Hi HS,
Thanks for that.
I've had so many problems with Safari over the last 24 hours or so that I have carried out all the procedures I have found on here - including the one you suggest) numerous times. Of course, I forgot that when I delete the preferences, this setting reverts to its default state, i.e. on. Hence it was on when I checked. I've deselected it now and it seems to be working. I'm not being too optimistic, though, as I have been at this point before and it has all gone terribly wrong again in a very short time - back to Safari hanging after a few seconds.
For now, everything is working OK but I feel like I'm walking on egg shells. I'm actually posting this in Firefox.

When the about:config setting for swipe are changed to allow changing tabs with swipe it does not repond and performs the default back and forward in browsing history action on the selected window instead of switching tabs. How do I get it to work?

In about:config, the values I changed to for the preference name browser.gesture.swipe.left was Browser:PrevTab and for browser.gesture.swipe.right was Browser:NextTab.
I have the latest synaptics touch pad on my laptop and it supports three touch swipe on windows pcs and on firefox. The about:config setting seem to be specific for MACs and so does not responds to windows changes.

Hi,
I suggest you try the steps in this thread for test:
Disable Suggested Sites does not work.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie9-windows_7/disable-suggested-sites-does-not-work/4ba064b1-1c6e-43f1-939e-2db1d335b2ef
Regards,
Vincent Wang
TechNet Community Support

IPad safari wont connect

My iPad is 5months old and has worked perfectly - now all of a sudden it won't connect to the internet or "talk" to my iMac. Any ideas before I have to consider whether there is an actual fault with the iPad.
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and you have tried another usb port and usb cable
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I can no longer see any of my browsing history and did not choose to have it that way

When I click on "show all history" there is nothing in the window. One time I tried to selectively delete SOME of the history and ever since then, nothing.
Old version of Firefox 3.0.19, Old Mac on Tiger operating system OS 10.4.11

Sounds like a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
I'm not sure what the effect of deleting places.sqlite in Firefox 3.0.19 will be. So be sure to export (backup) your bookmarks (and check the file content to be sure) before trying anything.
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox

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