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Whenever I go onto a website, I can't use the back button and when I look into my history or bookmarks both are deleted, how can I fix this?

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If I go onto a site I can't use the back botton, and my bookmarks and history is always deleted, even right after I go into a website.

If I go onto a site I can't use the back botton, and my bookmarks and history is always deleted, even right after I go into a website.

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cor-el
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A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.

You can also try to repair the places database with this extension: