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Where does Firefox 15 store History? Is it in only one single file?

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Where does Firefox 15 store History? Is it in only one single file?

I'd like to be editing the file(if it is) so I will be able, in the future, to merge needed history, or if needed, whole database of history entries to another profile.


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Where does Firefox 15 store History? Is it in only one single file? I'd like to be editing the file(if it is) so I will be able, in the future, to merge needed history, or if needed, whole database of history entries to another profile. Thanks!

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Hi Ties

The places.sqlite file stores history, bookmarks, keywords etc. see in the link how to edit the file, it is not so easy.


thank you

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Hi Ties

The places.sqlite file stores history, bookmarks, keywords etc. see in the link how to edit the file, it is not so easy.


thank you

cor-el
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Editing the places.sqlite file manually is not recommended because of the complicated table structure.

See this extension to export the history.

It is better to import a bookmarks HTML file to add sites from other sources to Firefox instead.

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Thank you two.

I also wanted to make sure that history is still stored and saved in that sql file.

thank you two for the links!