Harriet Bazley  wrote on 23 Nov:

> On 23 Nov 2016 as I do recall,
>           Jim Nagel  wrote:

>> Does Netsurf not save its hotlist and history till the user quits the
>> program?
>>
> No, it doesn't.
> An attempt to avoid constant unpredictable disc accesses, I assume,
> and it's not a problem until the program crashes, but it would be nice
> at least if editing the hotlist physically updated the relevant file -
> it's not something that happens all that often, unlike opening new
> pages, and unlike in other programs there's no way to 'save your work'
> manually.
>    It's a bit counter-intuitive that the only way to ensure that
> changes to the program data are preserved is to quit the program
> immediately after making them!

Amen to that!  Counterintuitive indeed.

The hotlist is saved in Choices:WWW.Netsurf
But where is the history saved?


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