only non html pages being saved in History; also can't change homepage
The last time Firefox actually saved an html page in the history was May 16th. Firefox will only save pages that I visit that are non-html pages, a page that ends in .pdf, jpg, .doc, etc.
I have tried several times messing around with options - picking don't remember history, then restarting and selecting remember history.
I uninstalled Firefox, but kept personal data. Then I reinstalled. Still didn't work.
I then used the reset FireFox. It only made things worse. Now I can't change the home page.
This is Firefox 22 beta on Win 8 Pro 64bit
Isisombululo esikhethiwe
ok - crazy - but now that I worked out the homepage issue and have it going to a page that wasn't in the dropdown - I restarted FireFox and it is now remembering the history correctly. However, all my old history has been wiped - it looks like it is all deleted. I did not delete it.
The only other change that happened when I restarted FireFox this last time was the Adobe Application Updater updated itself and also updated Adobe's Camera Raw.
Anyway, it seems to be working now -so that is great!
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Does this only happen when you close and restart Firefox or already during a browsing session?
In case you are using "Clear history when Firefox closes":
- do not clear the Browsing History
- Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history": [X] "Clear history when Firefox closes" > Settings
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clear+Recent+History
Note that clearing "Site Preferences" clears all exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, software installation, and passwords.
Both the history and homepage issue happens during browsing.
Nope, I am not using clear browsing history.
The homepage issue - I have more info on this - if in the the homepage text box, I used a site that was in the dropdown auto-fill selection, it would not stick - as soon as I picked another tab or clicked ok, it would revert back to the default firefox start page.
If I enter a page in manually that is not recognized in that autofill selection dropdown, the page will stay.
Or if I use "use current page", if it is a page that is new or not recognized, it will stick. But, if it is a page that will be recognized by autofill, it won't stick.
Hope that is clear and makes sense.
Thanks for responding so quick!
I should also add this...
If I open other tabs and visit sites and then close them, these pages will show up under the recently closed tabs, but again they won't appear in the history themselves.
Isisombululo Esikhethiwe
ok - crazy - but now that I worked out the homepage issue and have it going to a page that wasn't in the dropdown - I restarted FireFox and it is now remembering the history correctly. However, all my old history has been wiped - it looks like it is all deleted. I did not delete it.
The only other change that happened when I restarted FireFox this last time was the Adobe Application Updater updated itself and also updated Adobe's Camera Raw.
Anyway, it seems to be working now -so that is great!