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I have Firefox latest version (153.0.1 (64-bit)) running in Windows. Both are newly installed.

Usually, if I type a new URL firefox "remembers it" and when I type it the second time, it shows in the address bar.

But now it does not. Any ideas?

For quite some while now, when I pull up my site history, it doesn't matter what I search, the search returns no matches found.

Yesterday, I visited a site. Today, I pulled up the history (^H) and then proceed to search for a word I knew was in the title of the page because I had printed it and had it in front of me. It was not found. I then searched manually through my history and found the page.

See attached screenshots.

1. Searching for the word "corn" and not being found in the history
2. Manual search shows the content exists with the word "corn"

Windows 10 Firefox 152.0.4

I just noticed today that my drop down from my address bar no longer had anything to offer. So I went to my history in my MAIN profile and there is not a single entry. I can type in a URL to say amazon.com, and without even closing Firefox, I can clear the address bar and type ama and NOTHING!!!. Instead of messing around with any files in particular I went to my MAIN profile, because my second profile which isn't used often seems to be just fine. I deleted every file in that folder. I took out my external SSD which I backed up on June 22 and copied all the files from it into the empty profile. I then opened up Firefox and voila, it appears all my history was there. Then just to double-check myself I started typing and nothing. I hadn't even closed Firefox and once again, all my history is now gone. Does anybody have any thoughts?

I even deleted Places.sqlite, places.sqlite-shm, and places.sqlite-wal so that Firefox would rebuild them. After they reappeared I overwrote Places.sqlite with a backup but none of that helped. That was an AI suggestion, as I am not that well versed.

Thank You, Bruce

I believe when I wanted to update to a newer Firefox version, I chose the one right before the change to tab history where it said something about not saving as many presumably due to websites that can open several pages within a tab in a second or 2.

I don't know if this is the cause, but now whenever I open several YouTube pages it can fail to save one of them to web history. I don't know if it's because some pages open a &pp= page first and then when it switches to a clean video ID URL Firefox doesn't log all of them because of that tab history change?

Either way I'd also like to revert that tab history change if it's not the cause, is there already an about:config setting? Or is this just like the tags-in-history-window change and it will never be re-introduced..

I'd probably need to update Firefox within a few years anyway when some new thing unsupported on older Firefox is introduced, so if I revert to v131 that works better I may be in the same position a few years later. Idk if I can revert with the current profile data anyway.

I started using the new sidebar, but now when I type in the History search field, it doesn't recognize anything, even the most recent pages that are listed when I bring up History. I type any letter of the alphabet, and I get "No results for 'x'".

If I click on the three horizontal bars that say, "Open application menu", when I hover over it, I can click on History and then Search history, which puts my cursor in the address bar, and it brings up anything I type in just fine. How do I fix the sidebar?

Hello Is it possible to configure firefox in such a way that it remembers forms history on pages, but does not remember search history in firefox? I have classic search bar enabled and all things that I enter in address bar or search bar are remembered and suggested to me. I can disable saving forms history but it limits usability for webpages for me. Is it possible to change something in about:config that would enable me to remember forms on pages but forget forms built into firefox? Another annoying thing is fact that I have to clear both forms history and search history, I cannot separate it.

I have always used the option to restore previous tabs on startup. This stopped working a few days ago. After digging into it a bit I discovered that using the ctrl+shfit+q command is the only way to shut down firefox and get my previous session restored after.

I have changed no settings and afaik nothing else has changed. This is wildly inconvenient when just the other day I could close it however I wished and come back the next day to all of my tabs without having to dig it out of the history of closed windows.

Why has this changed and is there any way to restore the previous functionality?

in FF 137.02 Win11Pro there is no reopen previous session option in the history menu, even though in settings, history, "firefox will" is set to remember history. We tried reinstalling FF. No luck.

Is there a way to reopen the previous session?

Has that feature been deleted?

I have a new computer, which is set up just like my old computer. for some reason, when I click "history" it is blank. I have tried and tried in settings to get it to show, but have not had any luck. Can you please help me?

Typically, I have about 6 windows open at a time with about 20 tabs in each window. Previously, I was able to shut down my computer and all of them would reopen again. But, today is the second day in a row that that hasn't worked even though I have Open Previous Tabs & Windows checked off in the settings.

I would appreciate figuring this out as it's a pain in the ass opening everything again.

• I just noticed that Firefox is supposed to open automatically. This doesn't happen either.

I'm using a LG laptop running Windows 11.