Doug Turner wrote:
> In the short term, I think that making this value a preference would be
> great.
Yes, the configuration will be thro' Pref. The option would probably go
in to the History panel in the Pref UI
>
>
> What is preserved with session history? Why cant we just save the top
> level url or urls for a frameset instead of everything? Could you breifly
> list what negative things would happen if I set the max entries of session
> history to zero? Are there any?
SH right now saves the title, URI, a handle to nsILayoutHistoryState,
nsIInputStream(for postdata) for the page and a numeric ID used while
going back/forward thro' the entries
Title is used by the Go/Back/forward menus. nsILayoutHistoryState
information is used to restore form values/srollbar positions. The
nsIInputStream is used in reposting form submissions. There is a
attribute to save the nsIDOMDocument, but is currently unused.
If you set the Max entries to 0, no url will be saved in SH and
therefore the back/forward buttons will be always disabled.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Radha Kulkarni wrote:
>
>
>> Session History currently grows unbounded and has occupied the #2 slot
>> on the bloat chart. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62651
>> lists some of the ideas that have been thrown at the table. For 6.5,
>> saving a limited (but configurable) number of entries in SH seems
>> attractive.
>>
>> I'm not sure how affects the embedding world. Any ideas or issues with
>> limiting the # of linear entries in SH?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Radha
