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by Mathnerd314 793 days ago
In some sense they are the same thing, they are all stored in the Places database in a relatively uniform schema. In another sense they aren't, history is erased after a few months whereas losing bookmarks or tabs would be very bad. Firefox Mobile has this "inactive tabs" feature which is OK but I would never turn on the option to auto-close tabs.