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The only history shown is from several months ago, none from recent sessions, recent days, weeks or months

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The field on the left for history does not give any history at all, and if I use the pull-down menu under "History" and go to "Show All History", I only get history from 6 months ago, April and August. It seems that the rest of the files have disappeared.

The field on the left for history does not give any history at all, and if I use the pull-down menu under "History" and go to "Show All History", I only get history from 6 months ago, April and August. It seems that the rest of the files have disappeared.

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  • Make sure that you do not use Delete browsing, search and download history on Firefox to clear the Browsing History.
  • Make sure that the History is set to at least 1 day: Firefox > Preferences > Privacy > History: "Remember visited pages for at least"
  • Make sure that you do not start Firefox in Private Browsing mode (Tools > Stop Private Browsing is grayed, see Private Browsing - Use Firefox without saving history)
  • To see History and Cookie settings in Firefox > Preferences > Privacy, choose the setting "Firefox will: Use custom settings for history"

You can look at these prefs on the about:config page.

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.