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Limit on FF History

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franklurz
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For legal reasons, I needed to know the date upon which I visited a particular website several years ago. To my dismay I learned that FF browsing Hx was limited to 6 months. Now, it's limited to a number of visits. Does Hx have to be limited at all? Why? Surely, at this point in our technology we can store records as small as Website names and dates — can't we?

Really needed that date!

For legal reasons, I needed to know the date upon which I visited a particular website several years ago. To my dismay I learned that FF browsing Hx was limited to 6 months. Now, it's limited to a number of visits. Does Hx have to be limited at all? Why? Surely, at this point in our technology we can store records as small as Website names and dates — can't we? Really needed that date!

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FredMcD
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The History Manager only records the last time a link was visited. I think what you want is not accessible.

You might find something here; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=history

cor-el
cor-el
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You would need an older copy of places.sqlite to inspect older history.

If you use the Time Machine or other backup then you can check if such a backup copy is available

Location used for the main profile that keeps your personal data (Root Directory on about:profiles).

  • ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<profile>

In Mac OS X v10.7 and later, the "~/Library" folder in the Home directory is a hidden folder.