# Browser stops recording history **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 13, 2022, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-stops-recording-history/973162 "2022-10-13T03:03:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![longtry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/839c29/32.png) [@longtry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/longtry)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-stops-recording-history/973162/1 "2022-10-13T03:03:42Z")
I’ve been using Firefox for a while to read 2 APOD articles a day. Lately, when I opened the usual [archive link](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html) to click on articles, I found that the 2 I’d seen the day before were not marked as ‘read’ (colored purple). Thinking I must have deleted the browser’s recent history on accident, I went on as normal. But today, as I accessed it, all 4 articles I visited yesterday and the day before [appeared as blue links](https://imgur.com/a/LCIkh44). When I clicked on the June 12 & 13 ones, they promptly turned purple, just like yesterday with the June 10 & 11; but I bet that if I close the tab and open it tomorrow morning, they’ll be blue again. It’s like time itself has frozen on June 7 for this webpage! I don’t frequent other pages with timestamps as obvious as NASA’s APOD, so I don’t know for sure if this Groundhog-Day scenario happens with all websites or not. What I’m certain of is I didn’t erase history yesterday, and I don’t run any files that execute that browser’s function. A round of quick scan using local antivirus returned negative result. 1 thing of note is that my C: drive was nearly full, so I chose “Compress this drive to save disk space” option in Properties to increase the free room to 3GB. But the weird phenomenon happened to Firefox _before_ the compressing action. Any ideas of what’s going on? If there’s a chance of my computer being manipulated remotely, how can I discover it?