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When I open the History menu, it hasn't added anything new.

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Everything under Recently Closed Windows doesn't change. If I go to Youtube or Facebook, my visit won't show up in the History menu. What's strange though is that if I click Show all History, it's all there. It's just the History under Recently Closed Windows that doesn't show what I recently visited. Just shows the history from a few days ago. Not sure exactly what day.

Also, if this helps, it keeps track of closed tabs and windows just fine.

Everything under Recently Closed Windows doesn't change. If I go to Youtube or Facebook, my visit won't show up in the History menu. What's strange though is that if I click Show all History, it's all there. It's just the History under Recently Closed Windows that doesn't show what I recently visited. Just shows the history from a few days ago. Not sure exactly what day. Also, if this helps, it keeps track of closed tabs and windows just fine.

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There are closed windows and closed tabs. There is also going from one place to another in the same window.

Can you give more detail on what you were doing?

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This is basically what happening when I go to a new page on the same tab and window.

Ex. I go to youtube, then click history. It doesn't show youtube, or any other sites I visited today. Instead, it just shows pages from before a certain point in time. I know this because when I delete the pages that show up from my history,it just shows pages I visited before them. Never anything I visited after them.

But if I click Show all History, the list that pops up does show an accurate list of what pages I visited.

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Never mind, turns out the history menu kind of "fixated" on pages I visited in some random frame of time, and was putting them ahead of the new pages I visited. Once I deleted those old pages from my history, the pages I had just visited started showing up in the menu. Like, they started showing up near the bottom as I deleted the "fixated" on pages.

Not sure how that happened, but at least it's fixed.

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Open the History Manager <Shift><Control> H

Click on Most Recent Visit so that it is in the proper order.