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why are entires in my download history being removed?

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ahmadalam
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Entries in my download history have started to 'vanish' by themselves as of the last update, i.e. version 20. It's as if they're being aged off. Up until the update, my download history had at least the past six months of downloads showing, now it just shows 3 entries.

Entries in my download history have started to 'vanish' by themselves as of the last update, i.e. version 20. It's as if they're being aged off. Up until the update, my download history had at least the past six months of downloads showing, now it just shows 3 entries.

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cor-el
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Firefox manages downloads in the Downloads folder in the Library (History > Show All History)

  • Downloads are treated as history items: clearing history removes included download items and vice verse.
  • When downloads are in progress you see an animated download button on the Navigation Toolbar showing an estimate of the remaining time
  • The Download button gets a green highlight once all download are finished to make you aware that new downloads are available.
  • Pause and Resume can be found in the right-click context menu of an item.

You can display the new Download Manager in a tab by opening the about:downloads page and consider to open this page in a separate window.

Your downloads may still be present in the previously used 'clasic' Download Manager.

You can set the Boolean browser.download.useToolkitUI pref to true on the about:config page to revert to the classic Download Manager and also make all download settings reappear in "Options > General".

You can check the browser.download.manager.retention pref to make sure that it has the default value (2: manual).