Firefox Sync History Limit

Hi,
I finally managed to merge my history of 2 different profiles to one single places.sqlite. Now, that I've created a sync account and successfully synced my history, I've learned that Firefox has a limit for history sync: Only the last two months are synchronised.
I searched about:config for all entries named "history", but there is no option to increase the limit.
Furthermore, I've checked about:sync-log for errors, but there aren't any.
As I've never deleted my history since several years, I would like to use Firefox sync to synchronise this new places.sqlite also to other devices (PCs and Notebooks).
How can I increase the amount of History objects synchronised via Firefox sync?
Thanks & Cheers,
Tom

Hi cor-el,
thanks for the clarification.
That's too bad - then the sync feature is useless to me :(
Cheers,
Tom

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