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history somehow set to private, how or can i retrieve the days that are not showing due to private setting.

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Tispimpinitis
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somehow my history was set to private by another user and now I need to find out how to restore this info for the days that it was set to private . there was very important sites that I had went and now my hdd crashed and i no longer have them stored what do i do ?

somehow my history was set to private by another user and now I need to find out how to restore this info for the days that it was set to private . there was very important sites that I had went and now my hdd crashed and i no longer have them stored what do i do ?

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the-edmeister
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History is saved when Private Browsing is turned on. There's nothing to be recovered.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Private+Browsing

Tispimpinitis
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so there is no way at all . I mean if the fbi thought that I was up to something they could get it why not me

the-edmeister
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edited

see Cor-el's answer

Modified by the-edmeister

cor-el
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In PB mode data is only kept in memory by Firefox and not saved to disk, so an undelete utility like Recuva won't help. It is possible that your firewall keeps a log of visited websites, so you can take a look there.