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firefox cache pages deleted afert day(s)

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seanbam2
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Ever since I was forced to change to Windows 10 and the new update Firefox browser version the darn pages in history keep expiring after only a day or days so I can't view/load them when offline (except any open page left unclosed). They used to stay in cache for longer than that. I am sick of always having to come back online to re-load pages Firefox has expired after only a day or days or even only hours. (I don't mean the addresses/links in history list but the cached pages.) There don't seem to be any settings in options for this.

(Sorry I don't have time to search archives. Have too many troubles with WIndows 10 and related things like new browser version to keep looking them all up.)

Ever since I was forced to change to Windows 10 and the new update Firefox browser version the darn pages in history keep expiring after only a day or days so I can't view/load them when offline (except any open page left unclosed). They used to stay in cache for longer than that. I am sick of always having to come back online to re-load pages Firefox has expired after only a day or days or even only hours. (I don't mean the addresses/links in history list but the cached pages.) There don't seem to be any settings in options for this. (Sorry I don't have time to search archives. Have too many troubles with WIndows 10 and related things like new browser version to keep looking them all up.)

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sbassett80
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Hello

You have to go into your settings, and change the expiry dates, from delete after one day change to don't delete. Then you can tell them delete after a certain amount of days, ..like 15 or 30 days, that should do it.

seanbam2
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Where are these settings? I can't see any setting like that in 'settings'. The only thing I've found is that it was set to custom settings in history, so I've set it to remember history, but I will have to wait for day(s) to see if that makes any difference, but it was already ticked both remember browsing history under custom settings anyway (and I am not sure if that is only history addresses/links or also recent cache pages).

Terry
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You could try changing this preference in about:config. I have never done so and have the default 180. browser.migrate.chrome.history.maxAgeInDays

EDIT: Sorry, I was following on from previous comments. There is another preference which may affect your original question. The subject seems to be a work in progress but you could try setting it to false. privacy.clearOnShutdown.history

Modified by Terry