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How long could Firefox browsing history be kept on the cloud, attached to the Firefox Account?

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Firefox browsing history could be store locally for 2 months, as specified ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1172337 ).

It specifies that "When it comes to Sync then things are different: Synced history expires in 60 days (2 months) and synced tabs expire in 7 days and have a maximum payload (20-28 kb: long URLs have effect). ".

However, I could still see the browsing history, 6 months ago, across all of my devices having my Firefox Account logged in.

Just wondering how long exactly the could history could be kept.

Thank you! :-)

Firefox browsing history could be store locally for 2 months, as specified ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1172337 ). It specifies that "When it comes to Sync then things are different: Synced history expires in 60 days (2 months) and synced tabs expire in 7 days and have a maximum payload (20-28 kb: long URLs have effect). ". However, I could still see the browsing history, 6 months ago, across all of my devices having my Firefox Account logged in. Just wondering how long exactly the could history could be kept. Thank you! :-)

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Once synced, you may be keeping this history. I've never used Sync to sync history.

There are some constants defined that you can see in the source code.

HISTORY_TTL: 5184000; // 60 days THIRTY_DAYS_IN_MS: 2592000000; // 30 days MAX_HISTORY_UPLOAD: 5000 MAX_HISTORY_DOWNLOAD: 5000

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Once synced, you may be keeping this history. I've never used Sync to sync history.

There are some constants defined that you can see in the source code.

HISTORY_TTL: 5184000; // 60 days THIRTY_DAYS_IN_MS: 2592000000; // 30 days MAX_HISTORY_UPLOAD: 5000 MAX_HISTORY_DOWNLOAD: 5000

See: