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I am unable to delete history. I reopen the Library to find it all still there. Help?

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SKrivsky
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I have tried doing everything I can think of including going through the detailed instructions of how to delete history. It isn't deleting. I reopen the browser and look in the Library to find it all still there. I need to know how to fix this. Thank you.

I have tried doing everything I can think of including going through the detailed instructions of how to delete history. It isn't deleting. I reopen the browser and look in the Library to find it all still there. I need to know how to fix this. Thank you.

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FredMcD
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Please explain what you have already tried.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/update-firefox-latest-version 43.*

Places Maintenance {web link} Allows to run Maintenance tasks on the database that drives Places, the bookmarks and history module behind Firefox.

Open the Add-ons Manager. Locate the add-on and press the Options button. Then follow the directions.

cor-el
cor-el
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You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database (bookmarks, history) in the Firefox profile folder and possibly rename/remove all places.sqlite files including places.sqlite-shm and places.sqlite-wal to rebuild places.sqlite and restore the bookmarks from a JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder.

See also:

You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder: