Proxy settings will not save in program or through prefs.js.

Every time I start up firefox 4 RC1, the proxy settings are set to manual configuration. I have no proxy and have to set it to no proxy every time. When I close and re-open, it goes back to manual configuration.
I tried manually editing this setting through prefs,js and it saves until I open firefox again and it resets it to manual proxy configuration.
I also tried deleting prefs.js so it would generate a new one but still no luck.

I had a Malware problem, maybe it is the same for you.
I looked for files modified at the time I thought the Malware acted on my PC.
Found 3 lines added to the:
C:/users/xxxxxmyprofile/appdata/roaming/mozilla/firefox/profiles/xxxxx.default/[email protected]/default/preferences/prefs.js
I removed them, and I saved the prefs.js file again.
They were like:
user_pref("network.proxy.http", "127.0.0.1"); user_pref("network.proxy.http_port", 58505);
user_pref("network.proxy.type", 1);
More or less.
My suggestions:
Check all *.js files in firefox/ subfolders, plugins included (in my case, as you can see, it was in foxmarks subfolder).
Took me a while, finally solved.

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