Windows 10 Version 21H2 - Firefox History issue

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  1. Posts : 43
    Windows 10 Home
       #1

    Windows 10 Version 21H2 - Firefox History issue


    Hi guys.

    My PC was powered up this morning and many sites visited over the course of quite a few hours via Firefox 95.0.2 (64-bit).
    Wanting to review a few sites that I'd closed down, I checked on my Firefox history but it's only showing history from Oct 2021 and before. Nothing more recent.

    Has anyone experienced this before and did they manage to recover the missing history?

    I'm running Malwarebytes [paid subscription] and run scans looking for potential nasties but come up as a blank.

    Any ideas please?
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  2. Posts : 2,800
    Windows 7 Pro
       #2

    Hi,

    Make sure that in

    Code:
    about:preferences#privacy
    is set to:
    Windows 10 Version 21H2 - Firefox History issue-screenshot00199.jpg

    If this parameter was at "Never Remember History", the history was not recorded since.
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  3. Posts : 43
    Windows 10 Home
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks for the reply ... yes it's set to remember history.
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  4. Posts : 31,470
    10 Home x64 (22H2) (10 Pro on 2nd pc)
       #4

    MoabUtah said:
    Wanting to review a few sites that I'd closed down, I checked on my Firefox history but it's only showing history from Oct 2021 and before. Nothing more recent.
    Has anyone experienced this before and did they manage to recover the missing history?
    No, my History is complete. Try clicking 'Manage history' at the bottom of your history and see if there's anything for Today.

    Windows 10 Version 21H2 - Firefox History issue-image.png
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  5. Posts : 43
    Windows 10 Home
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Yes, using the manage History function I get a choice of 6 or so sites that I've used after noticing the missing ones and then from October 2021 and older.
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  6. Posts : 3,272
    Win10
       #6

    Another way to see the history also, is by using the MZHistoryView from NirSoft which can connect to the file "places.sqlite" which holds all the history in a database in Firefox. The places.sqlite file is in your profile folder (which you can locate by entering in the Firefox url bar).
    Code:
    about:profiles
    Either copy it somewhere else and then use that to make MZHistoryView connect to that copy or you can do it in its place.

    You can sort the order in the Viewer to see if the recent history is showing there (unless that database file is damaged somehow).

    MZHistoryView: View the list of visited web sites in Firefox / Mozilla browsers
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  7. Posts : 43
    Windows 10 Home
    Thread Starter
       #7

    That's a usefull tool ... thank you das10.

    Downloaded and ran it and it shows my history from later today then a gap all the way back to 12 October. So it looks like 3 complete months are missing ???
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  8. Posts : 3,272
    Win10
       #8

    If you are desperate to view that hsitory, do you have any System images or Restore points from which you might be able to grab an older copy of the sql file ?
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  9. Posts : 43
    Windows 10 Home
    Thread Starter
       #9

    das10 said:
    If you are desperate to view that hsitory, do you have any System images or Restore points from which you might be able to grab an older copy of the sql file ?
    Good plan, I'd not thought of that. Have a few from early January so will give that a go.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Regrettably, the restore failed:

    Windows 10 Version 21H2 - Firefox History issue-image.png

    The others are earlier so not so much to be gained ... but thanks anyway.
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  10. Posts : 23,014
    Win 10 Home ♦♦♦19045.4239 (x64) [22H2]
       #10

    MoabUtah said:
    Good plan, I'd not thought of that. Have a few from early January so will give that a go.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Regrettably, the restore failed:

    The others are earlier so not so much to be gained ... but thanks anyway.

    I know you said you have it set on Remember History, but do you also have this box... UN checked?


    Windows 10 Version 21H2 - Firefox History issue-image1.png



    Only other thing I can think of is that if you're running Firefox in a Private window... it will NOT remember History.
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