trying to save my history forever
using version 40.0.2 and I absolutely hate that some time ago I discovered my long kept and regularly used history was no longer there. No warning, the old history simply was gone and much to my dismay it continued falling off, leaving me only about 5 months of history. So I have tried increasing the number for places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages and I can't seem to get it to change. Either to increase or decrease.
Any suggestions? Is this number based on something else?
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places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages is a read-only pref that reflects the current setting of how many pages to remember, so changing the value of this pref won't have effect.
You would have to create a places.history.expiration.max_pages pref if you want to increase the number of pages that is kept.
See Marco Bonardo's blog about this subject:
Btw, for the sake of information we have two new hidden preferences: places.history.expiration.interval_seconds is number of seconds between each expiration step, while places.history.expiration.max_pages is maximum number of pages that we will retain before expiring.
I need to expand my history time but The Value of "places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages" DOES NOT CHANGE !!! IT HAVE A MODIFY OPTION BUT IT DOES NOT GET MODIFIED !!! WHAT IS GOING ON ?!? WHY EVERY SIMPLE THING IN FIREFOX SHOULD BE SOOOO CONFUSING AND UNCOMFORTABLE ?!?!?