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All of a sudden my Privacy and Security page in Settings is frozen. I am unable to clear history and data, too!

For years I have clicked on the clear history, clear data and manage data on the settings page in privacy and security--directly after leaving every website, just to be s… (read more)

For years I have clicked on the clear history, clear data and manage data on the settings page in privacy and security--directly after leaving every website, just to be sure...now nothing is happening when I click on them. FF is up to date and nothing is different (that I know of).

Please help. Thank you.

Asked by Hashachar70 1 month ago

Answered by Hashachar70 1 month ago

Link Colors

I am still running Win 7 Pro with Firefox 115.29.0esr. In COLORS I have set the Unvisited links to Green and Visited links to Red. USE SYSTEM COLORS and UNDERLINE LINKS … (read more)

I am still running Win 7 Pro with Firefox 115.29.0esr.

In COLORS I have set the Unvisited links to Green and Visited links to Red. USE SYSTEM COLORS and UNDERLINE LINKS are both checked. OVERRIDE COLORS is set to Always.

The problem: The color change to Red for Visited links is no longer retained after closing Firefox. The fact that a link has been visited is lost.

Is this a bug, a setting problem, or is it simply because I've running obsolete versions?

Thank you in advance!

Asked by steve.defeo 1 month ago

Clear history is not working

Firefox is not deleting search history when using Clear Recent History. The URLs still appear in the Show All History. In Settings under Privacy and Security, the box … (read more)

Firefox is not deleting search history when using Clear Recent History. The URLs still appear in the Show All History.

In Settings under Privacy and Security, the box is ticked for Delete cookies and site data, and also for Clear history when Firefox closes. I have manually cleared cookies and site data and history within Settings, but the it still remains under History even when I've closed Firefox and restarted the PC.

Under Sync, the box for History is not ticked.

This has been happening for some time without me realising. I have now deleted pages.sqlite and this has cleared the history, but it still retains all new site data under History and will not clear it.

I have disabled then uninstalled anti-virus, I have removed CCleaner because this was also not deleting history.

And I've also reinstalled Firefox, but the problem persists.

What am I doing wrong please?

I am using Windows 11.

Asked by lemm 1 month ago

unknown page apears in der chronic all the time

Hello, after I have cleanes the chronic, an empty tap and an unknown page apears in der chronic all the time (syscsrv.com/vhtrs...). What can I do? Many Thanks … (read more)

Hello, after I have cleanes the chronic, an empty tap and an unknown page apears in der chronic all the time (syscsrv.com/vhtrs...). What can I do?

Many Thanks

Asked by Hermann Fröhlich 1 month ago

clear history automatically

I have clear search history when browser is closed checked, and it still has a months worth of history and I have closed and reopened the browser countless times, why doe… (read more)

I have clear search history when browser is closed checked, and it still has a months worth of history and I have closed and reopened the browser countless times, why doesn't the history clear?

Asked by jason.dunkerton 1 month ago

Last reply by jason.dunkerton 1 month ago

Firefox not showing the history of the sites I visit

I have a desktop PC with Windows 11 and Firefox 144.0 (64-bit). In Firefox, when I click the three horizontal lines in the upper-right corner of the page, and click on "… (read more)

I have a desktop PC with Windows 11 and Firefox 144.0 (64-bit).

In Firefox, when I click the three horizontal lines in the upper-right corner of the page, and click on "History", no sites are shown.

How do I get Firefox to keep the history of the sites I visit?

Asked by gcotterl 1 month ago

Firefox is not keeping history

I have a desktop PC with Windows 11 and Firefox 144.0 (64-bit). In Firefox, when I click the three horizontal lines in the upper-right corner of the page, and click on "… (read more)

I have a desktop PC with Windows 11 and Firefox 144.0 (64-bit).

In Firefox, when I click the three horizontal lines in the upper-right corner of the page, and click on "History", "Recent History" shows 9 sites.

When I click on "Manage History": "Today" contains 1 name "Yesterday" contains the same name "Last 7 days" contains 9 names

In the search box, when I type about:preferences#privacy and press enter.

Under "History", "Firefox will" shows "Remember history"

How do I get Firefox to keep the history of the sites I visited?

Asked by gcotterl 1 month ago

Some tabs I just closed do not appear in the recently closed tabs list

When I close a tab, and try to find it in the recently closed tabs in the history, some i just closed, and without opening even a few others, they do not show up in th… (read more)

When I close a tab, and try to find it in the recently closed tabs in the history, some i just closed, and without opening even a few others, they do not show up in the recently closed tabs list, while some I closed the day before are in there even when I filter to "Today" and that after" using Firefox for less than an hour and only had.

For one I think Today doesn't do that but rather the last 24 hours or similar.

It actually has been a problem for a very long time.

I can find most of them in the "Show all History", but that defeats the purpose of the recently closed tabs option.

I am using 143.0.4 (64-bit) AKA archlinux - 1.0, on Arch Linux I update every few days.

In my case today it was a Duck Duck Go search results page.

Asked by VanZoiden 1 month ago

New installation of FF not collecting history, not syncing, and not posting "frequent websites" on new tab page

I recently got a new computer running W11. As always, the first thing I did was download Firefox and set it to my default browser. Then I logged in and synced. Firefox pi… (read more)

I recently got a new computer running W11. As always, the first thing I did was download Firefox and set it to my default browser. Then I logged in and synced. Firefox picked up some things - like my passwords, but not a single instance of history, not a single bookmark, or the tiles of frequent websites seen on the new tab page. Thinking something had gone wrong, I uninstalled FF and then reinstalled it. No change. As I was researching what to do when FF syncing fails, I realized that FF is not saving any data in history. NONE. I fiddled around with this situation for about five hours and it showed NO history of websites/pages visited. I went to a few common websites by name, typing www.ebay.com into the search bar (for example) and since that was a website I had now "frequented" I expected it to show up as a tile in the new tab page, but it didn't, even after closing it and opening it several more times to demonstrate (to FF) its frequent-ness.

What could be causing all this? I assume some settings in about:config are off, but can't find any information searching the web. No matter how I state the question, I only get responses like what to do if FF doesn't sync, NOT what to do if FF doesn't collect any history. Honestly, this is a standalone private home computer. It doesn't actually HAVE to sync with work. But it's not very useful to have a browser that collects NO history.

Sorry this is so long, and may I say, any help will be seriously appreciated.

Asked by CatsinQ 2 months ago

Restore previous session is missing not even greyed out.

Restore previous session, in history, is an important setting. It has now disappeared completely as an option even though restore windows and tabs is ticked. Need to go d… (read more)

Restore previous session, in history, is an important setting. It has now disappeared completely as an option even though restore windows and tabs is ticked. Need to go deeper than the superficial help .

Asked by rbeaver1970 2 months ago

Last reply by Denys 2 months ago

bug 1990978

I reported an issue with Firefox 143.0.2 where History would not stay deleted. Same problem as reported by Bojan Nesic 5days ago. It looks like the bug is fixed/closed. … (read more)

I reported an issue with Firefox 143.0.2 where History would not stay deleted. Same problem as reported by Bojan Nesic 5days ago. It looks like the bug is fixed/closed. (Sorry- this is first time I've reported a bug). I updated to 143.0.3 but bug remains. Is there another update? Thanks

Asked by dan.sibo7522 2 months ago

Last reply by TyDraniu 2 months ago