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How can I view old history?

Hi. I built my whole system around history never expiring and saving years worth of urls and visit time. In chrome this works well. But it seems like on Firefox I can only go back a couple of months. I know I visited a site last year at this time, with firefox. I would like to get the url. How can I achieve that? I think history is very valuable to some people.

Hi. I built my whole system around history never expiring and saving years worth of urls and visit time. In chrome this works well. But it seems like on Firefox I can only go back a couple of months. I know I visited a site last year at this time, with firefox. I would like to get the url. How can I achieve that? I think history is very valuable to some people.

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Did you ever create a new profile or reset Firefox?

When you reset Firefox then a new profile is created and some personal data (bookmarks, history, cookies, passwords, form data) is automatically imported and the current profile folder will be moved to the desktop to an "Old Firefox Data" folder. Installed extensions and other customizations (toolbars, prefs) that you have made are lost and need to be redone.


Firefox doesn't have a backup of the history.

Firefox's built-in history lists show only the date/time of the most recent visit to a page, not ALL visits to a page. You would need an add-on or external utility for that.

Bear in mind that Firefox trims the history database to maintain a maximum record count for performance reasons. If you find that too much old history is being trimmed, you may need to increase that value. See: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/928443#answer-337626 (re: creating a new preference named places.history.expiration.max_pages and setting it to a high value).