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Firefox has lost all my browsing history and hasn't restored - is there a way to retrieve this?

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Firefox has lost all my browsing history and hasn't restored - is there a way to retrieve this? (on a mac)

Firefox has lost all my browsing history and hasn't restored - is there a way to retrieve this? (on a mac)

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Firefox stores bookmarks and history in places.sqlite.

If you use the Time Machine or other backup then try to restore the places.sqlite file from this backup.

Note that restoring places.sqlite gives you the bookmarks as stored in this file, so you lose bookmarks added at a later time.