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some part in history (places.sqlite) lost after exit and OS reboot

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I am desperate. I often used to restore last session once my laptop wake up next day in order to save time. I regularly exited FF by top-right GUI cross which had opened 10 sessions that time(no hanging up,crash,simple ordinal FF exit). Then I rebooted OS win7. My FF is latest one 21.0.so hopefully all older bugs shall be solved. Then I started FF with hope that my restore last session tab works from home view.It never happened. I had just blank FF starting page. I checked history manually in LAST MONTH. Almost 20 days back is missing. Then I started deeper investigation in places.sqlite and I opened this by text editor searching raw strings with URLs which I used during last month. THEY GONE,DISSAPEARED from places.sqlite.Just some of them from begging of last month are there. It is really annoying I relied on this FF feature. Can anybody explain me what to do to avoid history lose in next time? I do know that my history gone forever, simple history URLs disappeared from places.sqlite. Restore does not make sense then.No journal file of places. Thanks for any hints.

I am desperate. I often used to restore last session once my laptop wake up next day in order to save time. I regularly exited FF by top-right GUI cross which had opened 10 sessions that time(no hanging up,crash,simple ordinal FF exit). Then I rebooted OS win7. My FF is latest one 21.0.so hopefully all older bugs shall be solved. Then I started FF with hope that my restore last session tab works from home view.It never happened. I had just blank FF starting page. I checked history manually in LAST MONTH. Almost 20 days back is missing. Then I started deeper investigation in places.sqlite and I opened this by text editor searching raw strings with URLs which I used during last month. THEY GONE,DISSAPEARED from places.sqlite.Just some of them from begging of last month are there. It is really annoying I relied on this FF feature. Can anybody explain me what to do to avoid history lose in next time? I do know that my history gone forever, simple history URLs disappeared from places.sqlite. Restore does not make sense then.No journal file of places. Thanks for any hints.

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cor-el
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Problems with bookmarks and history not working properly can be caused by a corrupted places.sqlite database file.

You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox profile folder.

In case you are using "Clear history when Firefox closes":

  • do not clear the Browsing History

Note that clearing "Site Preferences" clears all exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, software installation, and passwords.