Why firefox deletes my history?

''dupe of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/956059''
Hello
i use firefox for 6 years and i never seen this problem before.
My firefox used to keep the places history for a long time (longer than 6 months) and it was good.
But last month, firefox deleted all my history.
Fortunately i have backed the "mozilla" folder up. so i overwrited the old mozilla folder to .../appdata/roaming/mozilla . And i solved the problem.
But after a few days it happened again. So i wrote a batch file to back up my mozilla folder when windows starts.
Now firefox deletes my history about ones in a month. and i restore it and again and again...
have can i stop this? Why firefox deletes my history?
Here is a screenshot of my about:config page.
What am i doing wrong? please help me about this!
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Do you have any anti-virus or cleanup software running that may be causing this?
In case you are using "Clear history when Firefox closes":
*do not clear Browsing History
*Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history": [X] Clear history when Firefox closes > Settings
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clear+Recent+History
Note that clearing "Site Preferences" clears all exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, software installation, and passwords.
Clearing cookies will remove all specified (selected) cookies including cookies that have an allow exception and cookies from plugins.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Options+window+-+Privacy+panel

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I expect you are deleting your history at the end of your session, as opposed to only clearing cache.
Make sure your are saving history, then in the settings that you are not clearing history.
'''Tools > Options > Privacy''' you must have "Remember my browsing history" and in Settings where check marks mean to clear things you must leave unchecked "Browsing history". Annotated picture:
* http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/4928/clearcachew.png
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I can not delete my history and adding new bookmarks.
Upgrading to later Firefox versions and/or re-installing didn't rectify it either.
The address bar still shows the web addresses of old and whenever I make new bookmarks, it's always gone as if it was never made.
Also, I have noticed that every once in awhile you can not close tabs you've opened, either by pushing on the X button and/or clicking on the mouse to close it. Although closing the window and opening it again (without closing the Firefox application) seemed to rectify the problem in the short term, it's becoming quite annoying.
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I think I have a solution.
First, download the add-on SQManager. This should be included with FireFox, it is really good.
Look for the file '''moz_hosts''' in the folder '''places.sqlite'''.
Don't delete the file, just delete the information in the file. My file has over 3600 websites, which go back years!! I did not know they were there, but I was frustrated about not being able to get rid of them. They popped up every time I used the address bar. Clearing my history would not get rid of them.
This is where they are stored!! I found that by deleting the pesky web site from '''moz_hosts''', it does not appear in my address bar anymore!!!
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
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