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few days ago, i was trying to remove unimportant entries from the browsing history section. i discovered that my delete button wasn't working and no entry was being deleted, not even when i was trying to remove using the mouse right side button. at first, i thought the delete button of the keyboard has become faulty. but i found that it was working fine in other apps or parts of the Windows OS. so i tried again removing the entries but couldn't do it. then i closed the firefox browser and reopened it. to my horror, i found that all entries before November in the firefox history section have just disappeared. nothing is there. i felt very much shocked and sad because there were lots of important entries which i have stored for almost two years. now i don't know how to restore my lost history entries. just because of some errors in the firefox program, i have lost my long saved entries. please suggest me how to restore it.

I have looked on the web and continue to find all sorts of references on how to configure your browser to open the tabs I had open last time I closed the browser. I have the "Open previous windows and tabs" checked in the General settings....and it doesn't work! How is that? Any special thing I need to do to get it to work?

It's not showing recent activity - only blank grey boxes. And its not showing my things saved in pocket at all even though I've selected in settings to show it.

Im using version - 135.0 (aarch64) - it says its up to date.

Hello Mozilla,

I am about to trash Firefox ... an app that I have used for years, but in the past few weeks it has become an item of frustration.

I have the lastest version which in itself works great but recently cannot remember settings from session to session. I have reviewed comments on the subject but cannot find a solution.

Help please ... or it will be trashed within the week.

Darryl

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?

Long pressing the Android back button on the navigation bar no longer displays the tab's history on Firefox Android.

S22 Ultra Android 13

134.0.1 (Build #2016067655)

Why are my 3 rows of Home page tabs now so small? I can go to about:config, search for browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant-b and change to false and tabs are back to large. However, they soon revert back to very small. How can I keep them large?

For some reason on android firefox I'm no longer able to pull up a tab's history by holding down the back button. I can still press to go back, but there's no way to either go back several pages or to go forward if I have already gone back.

The icons on my home page suddenly became significantly reduced in size. Sure, I can tell what they are, and I've increased the text size for their identifiers below the icons. But they are now so small as to be not pleasing to the eye. How can I put them back the way they wuz?

Restore Previous Session. I did like I have in past and read on support but that line isn't in my choices...my win 11 just did an update but Firefox didn't recover sme as my chrome.. Restore the previous session from the Firefox menu

Restore the previous session from the Firefox menu

Here's how to get back your tabs and windows from a previous session using the Firefox menu:

   Click the menu button  to open the menu panel.
   Click History, then click Restore Previous Session.

these are the entries in the Firefox browser history:

https://bcnexum.com/rox?cid=290db0db9e38fc7148ade83292dc1d2e8feb80f65d7f9ca8ce2a1dc41d9e529a

https://bcnexum.com/rox?ui=4b01s1i&wm=%7Eu-E&pub=wu-E&ci=%3CJ_x2Oq%3E&ppos=&l=K%5B&ve=7Dbn6&an=I_%7D%25Ia%22VxV&id=5162166838506080833360671375498520271&its=9F%5Bt%2AMq5d9bA%23QD%3BvoPWbRZ&cup=o%2C%3FRpArIX6%7D5%7Dr%26_YN6%29%28P%3F3Sdj.C_1ZIR%2A%23md%7BUQ4%3B%258%295&phash=23ly290db0db9e38fc7148ade83292dc1d2e8feb80f65d7f9ca8ce2a1dc41d9e529a

http://127.0.0.1:28951/lp?u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

on PC in used: Windows 11Vers.: 24H2; Firefox: 133.0.3

regards D.Hörmann 494EA59D73C77A2C85B2D6D3A63253CCECA2CDE8DC02FF708AFB7F063641FE55B56971E3995B7E5D9F28E1226BEFECC908F8E8153E1331502D123B063B648843CE9097C3B68C3FC5A98404FA4E04FBD4BB8F54E7370572 45A8823C3CA65259C68CB9CD9081972EC5E8102FBFE44A29545E0307224C888F72A93776E71D8200022FD0F8BCF3D9E5E6E0

There is (IMHO) some missing functionality / unwanted feature or call it what you like (bug?).

History -> Manage History

select e.g. Last 7 days, right click on Name and select at least two attributes (you can choose from: Tags, Location,Most Recent Visit, Added and Last Modified)

Select the first entry of the list, all displayed fields are selected/highlighted.

Copy (either with the menu or with Ctrl-C) and paste it in your favourite text editor.

Why is only the URL copied? Other fields were also highlighted. Why are they not included?

This is WYSINWYG (what you see is not what you get).

It is possible to export bookmarks as an html file, so why is this not possible with history?

OK, it is possible to query the sqlite3 database directly to get some history info but it's a bit cumbersome.

To do so,

  copy the sqlite (places.sqlite) database to some safe place then open the database (with 'sqlite3 places.sqlite')
  get the history info you are interested in with a sqlite query,
  e.g. select title,visit_count,site_name,url,description,last_visit_date from moz_places where url like '%support%';

But there is no simple (AFAIK) way to convert 'last_visit_date' (an integer) to something human readable.

So either include the whole selection when something is copied (WYSIWYG) or provide export history as an html file.

ps: why is there on option 'other' in the list of 'topics' ? pps: I already posted this comment but it got lost somehow

I was working on my computer when I accidentally clicked out of my tab that had all my pinned windows on it. But then I accidentally started a new tab and deleted it. So now when I try to restore previous session it goes to the tab I just deleted and not the one with all my pins. Is there a way I can get all my pinned tabs back?