I didn’t know, that sucks so much.
Though, someone made a post on superuser and a reply said that you can back up the database, so at least something is salvageable
Making a backup every 60 days seems to be sufficient to keep all history. sqlite doesn’t reuse old ids (I think?) so merging the backups shouldn’t be too hard.
But they haven’t tested it, also I wonder if once you do that successfully, Firefox will just delete all the extra records at the next startup, so idk
The entries would still be datestamped and as firefox clears up the history the older ones would be deleted.
In my other comment I linked something that said firefox just starts tidying up as performance starts to degrade, rather than a fixed limit of history entries.
Therefore, if your history is more or less full, and you just import a heap more history, firefox is just going to “tidy up” everything you just imported surely.
Well, no. Firefox deletes entries older than 6 months from history and there’s no way to change this or to export the data.
This says its not time limited, but firefox will start purging once it starts effecting performance:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1410679
Also history search is terrible
Yeah, if I’m trying history search, I know I’ve already lost.
I didn’t know, that sucks so much.
Though, someone made a post on superuser and a reply said that you can back up the database, so at least something is salvageable
Yeah but if you import a backed up db wouldn’t the old entries just get deleted?
They said you can merge without conflicts:
But they haven’t tested it, also I wonder if once you do that successfully, Firefox will just delete all the extra records at the next startup, so idk
The entries would still be datestamped and as firefox clears up the history the older ones would be deleted.
In my other comment I linked something that said firefox just starts tidying up as performance starts to degrade, rather than a fixed limit of history entries.
Therefore, if your history is more or less full, and you just import a heap more history, firefox is just going to “tidy up” everything you just imported surely.
You can change how often it deletes history items, I’m sure I’ve done that before
Mine has history going back to Nov 2022 (though I’m not entirely sure why it stops there).