237056 - History is reset after closing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 202051

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Christian Garner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Whenever I close Firefox, the History is erased.  When I start Firefox, all the
my links back to "unvisited" status.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on a link.
2. Close Firefox.
3.  Start up Firefox.  The link goes back to "unvisited"
Actual Results:  
All of my links went back to "univisited" and the History sidebar was empty.

Expected Results:  
History should be rememberd even after Firefox is closed.

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

This WFM using Firefox 0.8.

Can you reproduce this with a clean profile? (delete or move away your
%AppData%\Phoenix) directory.

Also, make sure you did a clean install of Firefox 0.8. Did you install over a
previous install? If so, you may want to try to reinstall into an empty
directory in conjunction with using a clean profile.

Comment 2

[Christian Garner]

I tried re-installing with a clean profile and had no problems with the history.
 I investigated further into my original installation and discovered the
problem.  The setting for the number of days was too high.  I had set it to the
highest possible number (12 thousand and something, I believe).  After I changed
it to a more reasonable setting (like 365), the history started working
correctly again.

Comment 3

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 202051 ***