Firefox is slowly deleted my browser history older than 6 months. How do I keep history forever?

I just noticed that my browser history older than 6 months is slowly being deleted day by day. How do I prevent this from happening? This has only started happening recently. I have my settings as "Remember history". I want to keep all my history forever. Are there any configurations I can make to achieve this?
Thanks for your time.

Firefox automatically calculates how many pages to keep without affecting performance and saves that value in the transient_max_pages pref.
You can create a max_pages pref to override that current maximum, but it is better to leave those prefs at their default.
You can see the current value via the read-only pref places.history.expiration.transient_max_pages on the about:config page.

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Document ID:
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Modified Date:
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Contents [show]
   Products
   Environment
   Overview
   Cause
   Resolution
Products
BlackBerry® Desktop Software
BlackBerry® Desktop Software Version 1.0 (Mac OS)
BlackBerry® Devices
Environment
BlackBerry® Desktop Manager
BlackBerry® Desktop Manager Version 1.0 (Mac OS)
BlackBerry smartphone
Microsoft® Outlook®
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