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firefox used to have good history now it's only 7 days? i need to see more than 7 days, all of it being available is ideal. what prompted this - although i've been irked by it before - is needing to know how i got to a website, what was the search and/or tab spelunking that got me there? it's really important to know this. relying solely on google search (if that'll yield part of the trail) seems contrary to firefox ethos.

Firefox has an extensive History record of websites/pages viewed. Is there an Add-on / utility that will allow you to VIEW the page data - as it was displayed on the date it was accessed & NOT re-load the page ?

Basically ability to view a page 'offline' as another browser used to be able to allow you to do.

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?

I have noticed Firefox is ignoring the max_pages and transient max_pages settings, both set to 999999 and still deleting browsing history after 2-3 months here.

What can be done? Is there a way to get the developers to fix this so it stops deleting, ideally by adding a boolean setting?

Suddenly Firefox has started losing all my tabs when I close Firefox. It never used to. Windows 11 I have checked my settings - they are all as they are meant to be to NOT do this so why is it doing it????

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.

Usually when I click the toolbar it would open to the "History" tab, but now for some reason whenever I open the browser it defaults to the "Bookmarks" tab instead. This happens even if I already have a window open with the toolbar set to "history", opening a new window will reset that windows toolbar to the default "bookmarks" tab.

Is there a way to force the default toolbar page to history? Is this a bug?

Even though my settings in Firefox are set to restore open tabs when restarting, and Firefox is my default browser, I was unable to restore my open tabs when my Firefox browser just closed on me. I went up to the menu > History > Recently closed tabs > Reopen all tabs and nothing happened. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks for your help!

Hi,

A few weeks or months ago, Firefox suddenly wouldn't save my browsing history for longer than approximately 1 month. This is odd, because I have history turned on. I use custom history settings and only have cookies and cache deleted every time I close Firefox. Also, it does not delete the history upon closing FF, but it's simply limited to round about one month back. I have played around in about:config before, so I might have touched something there and not noticed until later.

I use Firefox 137.0.2 (64-bit) on a Windows 11.

Any ideas what might be the issue and how I could solve it?

Even though my settings in Firefox are set to restore open tabs when restarting, and Firefox is my default browser, I was unable to restore my open tabs when my Firefox browser just closed on me. I went up to the menu > History > Recently closed tabs > Reopen all tabs and nothing happened. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks for your help!

While I was browsing the internet,I saw one of mt results, while related to something I viewed before, was reworded and looked different than how I had typed it. The only extension I currently have is Ghostery. Could someone please explain whats going on?

My search history has disappeared. View/history shows a blank page. If I select "history" from the menu, "recently closed tabs" and "recently closed windows" are grayed out, and "recent history" is empty. But I've been to a dozen or more sites today. What can I do to make Firefox record my history?

There is a website that I go to that has suggested UserIDs in the dropdown box. I have tried to clear those through the privacy/clear settings in Firefox. Nothing clears them. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, yet the data is still there. I have cleared, deleted with every setting I could find, to no avail. I am using 138.0.1 (64-bit). Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you. **** It finally cleared after clearing data about 5 times. Moderator can please delete this question. Thanks.

I'm afraid I cannot continue using Firefox, after the last change, since I can no longer keep my tabs open after closing a session, as I specified in the settings: "Open previous windows and tabs." Can someone help?

All I have want to do, is to stop Firefox asking me every single time I load it up do I want to restore a session, jusst becuase of the way I shut down.

No, I do not want to resotre session and I never will.

So why have you made it so bloody annoying and frustrating to turn this feature off?

Why are you hell bent on making the last stand against chorme so bloody crap and annoying to use?

Why?

What blithering fool is deciding this?

Please, just stop it, just make firefox easy to configure and use, making everything so frustrating to use. You know, most of the world are not programmers and geeks. Most people just want to be able use and configure stuff to their liking hassle free. Stop being arrogant snobs and start actually lookign at things from the point of the everyday user.

It's not brain science.