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History in my 59.0.2 (Mac) no longer shows date, making my 10 years of history useless. Why, and how do I get date back?

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History in my 59.0.2 (Mac) no longer shows date, making my 10 years of history useless. Why, and how do I get date back?

History in my 59.0.2 (Mac) no longer shows date, making my 10 years of history useless. Why, and how do I get date back?

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Open the History Manager <Control> (Mac=<Command>) <Shift> H.

At the top left, press the Views button. Then Columns Colums.

EDIT: Make that Show Columns.

Modified by FredMcD

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Ah, great... Typed a whole, comprehensive, answer and then hit Backspace outside of the box, geez. :/

Maybe this can, somehow (?!), be of any help!?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/norwell/

... I had run a bunch of search queries to get to the answer(s), lost due to some about:config settings that I'm running (no -offline- caches and whatever), along the lines of:

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+long+firefox+keeps+pages+in+history
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FredMcD said

EDIT: Make that Show Columns.

Show... What, Columns?? :))

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Modified by nostromov

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kgb said

Show... What, Columns?? :))

Mark the Columns you want to see when the window is open.

robt17 said

History in my 59.0.2 (Mac) no longer shows date

In this case; Most recent Visit.

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Hi kgb

Are you on Mac as well?

Quote: Ah, great... Typed a whole, comprehensive, answer and then hit Backspace outside of the box, geez. :/

You can disable that backspace action by setting this pref to 2 on the about:config page.

  • browser.backspace_action = 2

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

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Note that the problem from the original poster hasn't been solved yet, so maybe kgb should create a new thread to avoid confusion.


Hi robt17

Do you see the time in the Library?

If you only see the time then this means that the date is today and you have lost your older history.