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In the configuration it is still set to remember my history. When i type in autocomplete it remembers the sites i visit yesterday. However everything iam doing right now isnt showing up in autocomplete and when i search my history it isnt there either. I tested by pasting a url to a valid page. Browse to another, closed Firefox, typed the domain, pasted the domain and still no history or autocomplete.

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  • Do you use something like CCleaner?
    – Ivo Flipse
    Jun 21, 2010 at 8:00
  • Nope. My hardisks space did drop and i did install CrystalDiskInfo in the past 2 days.
    – user3109
    Jun 21, 2010 at 8:20

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Make sure you're not running the browser in private browsing mode, and make sure that you don't have any cleanup utilities that wipe the history/cache of your browsers. If neither of those are the culprit, I suppose there's a possibility that the browser can't write to the files.

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  • Thats how this problem started. No disk space. I have 4gb+ and restarted my PC. Firefox still doesnt remember.
    – user3109
    Jun 21, 2010 at 8:31
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Quick solution without backup. Delete places.sqlite in your profile

Longer Solution: copy a firefox shortcut and add -P old -no-remote to the end (mine is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P old -no-remote). Click create profile, create one called old. Double click default (so it remains default and should now launch it). Double click the shortcut and it should launch a fresh firefox profile. Close them both.

Copy everything from default folder to the old folder (location here). Launch the old shortcut and it should be the copy of your current broken profile. Go to default and delete places.sqlite. Your history along with the problem should be gone with everything else intact. You can access the history via old.

related links

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/profiles https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile

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You just go into options, privacy and if it has all these settings under privacy you just unclick "clear history when Firefox closes"

otherwise just change it to "Firefox will: remember history" from the drop bar in that same privacy option

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I do not know if you look the options so I am writing ... tools - options - privacy - remember history ? ( also at the bottom there is an option to show suggestions for location bar - I think it should be selected as history and bookmarks)

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