> On Jun 6, 5:07 pm, Miles <milesc
...@REMOVEMEpacbell.net> wrote:
>> The last time I closed FX 2.0.0.14 using File/Exit
>> a window popped up telling me I was closing 4 tabs. I hadn't seen
>> this window before and said OK.
>> When FX was reopened, there were no open tabs as is usually the case,
>> and the history sidebar was empty except for a couple of spam popup
>> windows that frequently occur (orbitz and another). And the history
>> file was only 2kb.
>> Why would this have occurred?
>> Miles
> A similar thing happened to me last night. Something about closing
> tabs and then I cleared my configured "personal history" (which
> doesn't include URL history or bookmarks) and something didn't seem
> right. When I opened Firefox (3) again, all of my forum posting
> history was gone. All of my bookmarks were still fine though.
> Now, this kind of thing happened quite frequently in Firefox 2 and
> prior editions of Mozilla browsers. The history was stored in a file
> named "history.dat" and if one's computer shut down unconventionally
> or if the browser crashed for some reason, the history.dat file would
> be rewritten to default empty. That was easy to spot by going to the
> profile folder in Documents and Settings.
> Firefox 3 though, stores its history in a file named "places.sqlite."
> I checked this file (in Documents and Settings\Owner\Application data
> \Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\garble.default and found it looking full and
> healthy at about 5.1 mb size. There was no sign of its having been
> rewritten. There was also no sign of a crash report.
> The odd thing is that Firefox kept right on using this same -evidently
> corrupted- file to store NEW history! It acted like a fresh history
> file but was, in fact using the same one it had finished corrupting.
> To verify this assumption, I renamed the "places.sqlite" file by
> putting a dash in front of it (with the browser closed, of course). I
> then pasted in a corresponding "places.sqlite" file from Firefox 3
> running on a different computer. Sure enough, when I opened the
> browser, my history was all exactly the same as it showed on the other
> computer. I switched the files again and it reverted to the way it had
> been before.
> So I know for a fact there's something wrong with the "places.sqlite"
> file but I have no way of opening it to find out what might have been
> entered to make it turn off all previous history.
> I'll keep the corrupted file for awhile in case there's any way to
> check its contents.
This hasn't happened to me since. However, I'll keep your msg should it
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