I installed the latest security update and now all of my Firefox History has dissappeared. Has anyone else experienced unexpected behavior after installing this patch?
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Apple security updates have absolutely nothing to do with Firefox--not history files, not bookmarks, not nothing. At worst, losing your history files was a coincidence.
I installed the latest security update this morning (after I installed all updates last night, strange that this one waited). And it made my Mac Pro kernel panic 3 times straight from boot into OSX. I've since gotten it to load into OSX and I promptly reparied permissoins but shockingly it didn't find anything out of the ordinary. Hopefully this doesn't happen again.
Co-inkydink, for sure. I've always installed OS updates and patches troublefree, and wondered if someone else may have experienced same issue. Isn't the history stored in a cache that could be dumped with an update?
Firefox history files are not system files. They are controlled by Firefox. However, they do have a time limit. If you had your date and time set incorrectly prior to your OS update, then your history files may have been deleted when you launched Firefox.