My older Firefox history has vanished

I was looking for an item that would be a couple of years back in my history, only to discover that my history now only goes back a year and 3 months… exactly, as of yesterday, I don't know if that's meaningful.

Does anyone have any idea what might've happened, and how I can restore the rest of my history? Thank you!

I'm using Firefox version 115.8. I haven't added, removed, updated or changed anything on my computer recently.

iMac 27″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Apr 22, 2024 7:19 PM

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Posted on Jun 9, 2024 7:28 AM

If you have a Time Machine backup...

Location of Mozilla Firefox history

macOS

/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<profile folder>

/Users/<username>/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/<profile folder>/cache2

rjf380 Question owner 9/19/17, 2:52 PM

So, between these posts, and a visit to Apple's Genius Bar, I found a solution. (1) Access the Firefox profile folder as described above and click to have it open in Finder. (2) Close Firefox application. (3) While having the Firefox profile folder open in Finder, open Time Machine from the menu bar at the top of the Mac screen. (4) The Finder folder will then be displayed for all previous updates. Select the most recent update (or the update that would contain your browsing history), select the profile folder, and then click restore. (5) Exit Time Machine.

My Firefox browsing history is fully restored.

Thank you again for volunteering your time to help.

Modified September 19, 2017, 9:52:21 PM PDT by rjf380

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data

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