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How do I keep my history for longer than the preset setting?

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francisshennan
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I want to keep my browsing history for six months, so I can re-find usesul sites without having to bookmark them.

I want to keep my browsing history for six months, so I can re-find usesul sites without having to bookmark them.

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cor-el
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There is no time limit in Firefox 4+ versions for the history.
Firefox determines automatically how many pages can be kept without affecting the performance.
You can see the current value via the reads-only pref places.history.expiration.transient_max_pages on the about:config page.
If you still have old prefs like browser.history_expire_days or browser.history_expire_days_min showing on the about:config page then you can reset them via the right-click context menu and they will be removed on the next start of Firefox.

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If you lose history then make sure not to use Clear Recent History or use other cleanup software like Cleaner.