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Why is it that when I set the preference to always show the tab bar, it refuses to stay checked after I quit Firefox and restart it?

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Using Mac OSX10.6.7 and FF 4.0.1, I'm having a problem with the preference to always show the tab bar. I want it to always show. I check this in the Preferences under the "tab" window, and everything is fine until I quit FF and when I restart FF the tab bar is gone again. I go into preferences, and that option is now unchecked. How can I fix this so that my preference is saved?

Using Mac OSX10.6.7 and FF 4.0.1, I'm having a problem with the preference to always show the tab bar. I want it to always show. I check this in the Preferences under the "tab" window, and everything is fine until I quit FF and when I restart FF the tab bar is gone again. I go into preferences, and that option is now unchecked. How can I fix this so that my preference is saved?

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Click "Help" | "Restart with Add-ons disabled". In the next menu which appears, checkmark: "Reset toolbars and Controls". Then click the button called "Make changes and restart".

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That hasn't helped the last ten times I tried. I posted before. I deleted the preferences file, I tried changing the preferences file, I went into about:config and changed the autoHide preference there. No dice. Firefox is not saving my preference for that one thing.

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Do you have a user.js file on your system? If you have, it will rewrite the prefs.js configuration. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resetting_preferences#Software_that_changes_preference_settings

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no, there's no user.js. I tried copying the prefs.js to user.js and editing the user.js file manually, but that didn't work. I tried locking both files, and that didn't work either.

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Click "Help" | "Restart with Add-ons disabled". In the next menu which appears, checkmark: "Reset toolbars and Controls". Then click the button called "Make changes and restart".

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That worked. I have Adblock, Personas, RoxioNow Player Plugin, TrackerBlock, WebRunner, and XMarks. I'm guessing that one of those must be impeding my tabness?

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Webrunner. It's Webrunner.

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Thank you for your help. I've contacted Salsita software about how I might be able to fix that problem, hopefully there will be a solution already available.

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You're welcome.

Could you please click the "Solved It" button next to the post which solved the problem for you? This will help others searching for a solution to the same question.

Thanks.