Was advised to enter bug report and want to add one further point which might be useful. I have started a clean install on a separate disk and have not yet reinstalled my home directory. Too soon to see if browser history also vanishes in this case but have seen one difference. Both installs act the same when I click on the history button in the menu bar, but the history sidebar acts differently in the two cases. In both cases the history sidebar shows the time periods - today, yesterday, etc.. In the clean reinstall when I click on one of these time periods the browser history of that period appears. In the other case when I click on one of these time periods nothing shows up although the search function appears to work.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/942797 Title: browser history vanishes Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: On 2/25 I reported a problem - that my browser history vanished after one day. Original report (question 188806) is: "Using Ubuntu 11.04 updated and firefox 10.0.2. All was ok till I updated about 1 week ago. The next day my browser history disappeared. If I reinstall from a backup I can access all previous history stored in the backup but again all browser history vanishes after a day. I reinstalled the entire system and my home directory but same thing happens. Firefox preferences are set to "use custom settings for history", I cleared the cache, and my config files appear ok but ?. Tried running Clam AV and that showed no virus but it kept showing 99% complete and never finished. Can anyone help?" Received advice to move firefox to firefox.old and reinstall the browser since the problem might have been due to a config conflict. Seemed to work but tonight, after two days this time, the browser history again vanished. I am able to reinstall with a backup but problem persists. Preferences are set to 'Use Custom Settings' and 'Remember Browser History'. Anyone have a suggestion? Thanks. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/942797/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
