My browsing history got deleted by itself, why did this happen?
When I opened Mozilla Firefox today, I noticed my browsing history was all deleted. I have kept my history stored for a long time in there and today all of it was gone, I had not deleted it but I'm wondering how it could have been deleted, my browsing history was stored for over 6 months and today all of it was gone! Is there a way to restore all the history back or not? Could it have been that the history was getting overfilled and it cleared itself? Thanks a lot!
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Hey Daniel
Oh dear, well lets have a look
Check this link out and look at the "How do I make Firefox clear my history automatically?" section
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox
Hope this helps
Brad
If you haven't deleted the history yourself manually then a possible cause is that there has been a problem with the places.sqlite database file that stores bookmarks and history causing the history to get reset. For the bookmarks there are backup to restore the history, but there are no backups for the history. You would need a backup copy of the places.sqlite file to recover the history.
You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox profile folder.
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file
- Places Maintenance: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/
Hey guys, thank you very much for your responses, I appreciate it. I have taken a look at the links and I got some good information from them, thank you for providing them. I wanted to add another thing, I have my setting so that Firefox will always remember the history so for the history to get all deleted without me manually deleting them kind of surprised me. Firefox history would never delete itself just because it has too many items in there right? One last question though, do you know how I can get a backup copy of the places.sqlite database file so that I can recover the history? Thanks very much in advance.
Glad we could help
Export Firefox bookmarks to an HTML file to back up or transfer bookmarks https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer
Import Bookmarks from a HTML file https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-html-file
Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
Hope these help and make sure you set up firefox Sync for the future :) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-set-up-firefox-sync?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=what-firefox-sync
Brad :)
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Daniel1234 said
When I opened Mozilla Firefox today, I noticed my browsing history was all deleted.
My solution was not found in Firefox, but in CCleaner. CCleaner Professional>Applications>Firefox Uncheck Internet Cache & Internet History Hope this helps.