From "BrowsER HISTORY" to "BrowsING BOOKMARKS"

2020-02-16 Thread Richard Owlett
*carpe lector* Weird capitalization of subject line *IS* significant. I recently asked questions in support of a personal project on 3 fora: a OS specific forum a programing language forum a hardware forum. I, *naively*, thought my phraseology would adequately define my "universe of

Re: Seamonkey 2.46 browser history manual deletion expression

2017-01-06 Thread User
or console to clear browser history by number of days is a bit beyond the average end user's interest / capability to handle. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey

Re: Seamonkey 2.46 browser history manual deletion expression

2017-01-06 Thread David E. Ross
ented, many end-users expressed negative opinions about removing the capability to expire browser history in terms of the age of the history entry. Many of those comments appeared in the Mozilla Wiki that proposed and explained the change, but all those comments were deleted (by the a

Re: Seamonkey 2.46 browser history manual deletion expression

2017-01-06 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
60 * 60 * 1000) * 1000 - 1)" I did read about the PrefBar extension. However, I thought I had recalled reading in that Buzilla thread that the PrefBar was using exactly the same expression internally do purge browser history. If that is the case, that would mean that PrefBar would n

Re: Seamonkey 2.46 browser history manual deletion expression

2017-01-06 Thread J. Weaver Jr.
).setHours(0, 0, 0, 0) - (parseInt(prompt('Days of history to keep', 29)) - 1) * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000) * 1000 - 1)" I did read about the PrefBar extension. However, I thought I had recalled reading in that Buzilla thread that the PrefBar was using exactly the same expression internally do purge b

Re: Seamonkey 2.46 browser history manual deletion expression

2017-01-06 Thread User
However, I thought I had recalled reading in that Buzilla thread that the PrefBar was using exactly the same expression internally do purge browser history. If that is the case, that would mean that PrefBar would no longer work with SM 2.46, since that is my problem in the first place, that t

Re: Seamonkey 2.46 browser history manual deletion expression

2017-01-04 Thread David E. Ross
.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0) - (parseInt(prompt('Days of history to >> keep', 29)) - 1) * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000) * 1000 - 1)" > > I did read about the PrefBar extension. However, I thought I had recalled > reading in that Buzilla thread that the PrefBar was using exactly the s

Re: Seamonkey 2.46 browser history manual deletion expression

2017-01-04 Thread Ant
ad recalled reading in that Buzilla thread that the PrefBar was using exactly the same expression internally do purge browser history. If that is the case, that would mean that PrefBar would no longer work with SM 2.46, since that is my problem in the first place, that the expression no longer works in the e

Re: Seamonkey 2.46 browser history manual deletion expression

2017-01-04 Thread User
hat the PrefBar was using exactly the same expression internally do purge browser history. If that is the case, that would mean that PrefBar would no longer work with SM 2.46, since that is my problem in the first place, that the expression no longer works in the error console evaluation. Are you

Re: Seamonkey 2.46 browser history manual deletion expression

2017-01-04 Thread David E. Ross
On 1/4/2017 4:43 AM, Ant wrote: > On 1/3/2017 9:36 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > ... >> Try one of the other work-arounds in bug #660646. One suggests a >> PrefBar button; if you have the PrefBar extension installed, the Expire >> History button can be added from >>

Re: Seamonkey 2.46 browser history manual deletion expression

2017-01-04 Thread Ant
On 1/3/2017 9:36 PM, David E. Ross wrote: ... Try one of the other work-arounds in bug #660646. One suggests a PrefBar button; if you have the PrefBar extension installed, the Expire History button can be added from . Although I created

Re: Seamonkey 2.46 browser history manual deletion expression

2017-01-03 Thread David E. Ross
On 1/3/2017 5:32 PM, User wrote: > Prior to upgrading to SM 2.46, I have used the following manual workaround > shown > on comment 7 at this Bugzilla bug record below to delete browser history but > preserve the most recent 30 days: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu

Seamonkey 2.46 browser history manual deletion expression

2017-01-03 Thread User
Prior to upgrading to SM 2.46, I have used the following manual workaround shown on comment 7 at this Bugzilla bug record below to delete browser history but preserve the most recent 30 days: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660646#c7 Using this expression: Components.classes

Re: Browser History

2011-12-11 Thread JohnW-Mpls
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:33:16 -0500, Paul B. Gallagher pau...@pbgdashtranslations.com wrote: JohnW-Mpls wrote: Where is my browser history kept - what files, and in my profile or elsewhere? I used to see URLs from a few weeks back but now I see only today's URLs. In Preferences, I have

Re: Browser History

2011-12-11 Thread JohnW-Mpls
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:09:25 -0800, David E. Ross nobody@nowhere.invalid wrote: On 12/10/11 4:34 PM, JohnW-Mpls wrote: Where is my browser history kept - what files, and in my profile or elsewhere? I used to see URLs from a few weeks back but now I see only today's URLs. In Preferences, I

Re: Browser History

2011-12-11 Thread David E. Ross
On 12/11/11 4:41 AM, JohnW-Mpls wrote [in part]: On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:09:25 -0800, I wrote [also in part]: On 12/10/11 4:34 PM, JohnW-Mpls wrote: Where is my browser history kept - what files, and in my profile or elsewhere? I used to see URLs from a few weeks back but now I see only

Browser History

2011-12-10 Thread JohnW-Mpls
Where is my browser history kept - what files, and in my profile or elsewhere? I used to see URLs from a few weeks back but now I see only today's URLs. In Preferences, I have enabled saving browser history and selected searching for 180 days. I'm running SM 2.5 under XP. I'm looking

Re: Browser History

2011-12-10 Thread David E. Ross
On 12/10/11 4:34 PM, JohnW-Mpls wrote: Where is my browser history kept - what files, and in my profile or elsewhere? I used to see URLs from a few weeks back but now I see only today's URLs. In Preferences, I have enabled saving browser history and selected searching for 180 days. I'm

Re: Browser History

2011-12-10 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
JohnW-Mpls wrote: Where is my browser history kept - what files, and in my profile or elsewhere? I used to see URLs from a few weeks back but now I see only today's URLs. In Preferences, I have enabled saving browser history and selected searching for 180 days. I'm running SM 2.5 under XP

Browser History

2011-06-15 Thread David E. Ross
I have read some comments here and also at http://blog.bonardo.net/2010/01/20/places-got-async-expiration that some users are upset by the fact that entries in the browser history can no longer be automatically expired according to the age of the entry. For example, we can no longer set

Re: Browser History

2011-05-30 Thread David E. Ross
On 5/29/11 9:58 PM, David E. Ross wrote: On 5/29/11 7:32 PM, David E. Ross wrote: On 5/15/11 8:01 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote: David E. Ross schrieb: The user interface to control the browser history has been removed from SeaMonkey 2.1RC1. Do any of the following preference variables still have

Re: Browser History

2011-05-29 Thread David E. Ross
On 5/15/11 8:01 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote: David E. Ross schrieb: The user interface to control the browser history has been removed from SeaMonkey 2.1RC1. Do any of the following preference variables still have any effect on controlling the history? No. We have been talking bout

Re: Browser History

2011-05-29 Thread David E. Ross
On 5/29/11 7:32 PM, David E. Ross wrote: On 5/15/11 8:01 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote: David E. Ross schrieb: The user interface to control the browser history has been removed from SeaMonkey 2.1RC1. Do any of the following preference variables still have any effect on controlling the history

Re: Browser History

2011-05-15 Thread Robert Kaiser
David E. Ross schrieb: The user interface to control the browser history has been removed from SeaMonkey 2.1RC1. Do any of the following preference variables still have any effect on controlling the history? No. We have been talking bout this multiple times here and there were blog posts

Browser History

2011-05-14 Thread David E. Ross
The user interface to control the browser history has been removed from SeaMonkey 2.1RC1. Do any of the following preference variables still have any effect on controlling the history? browser. history. grouping browser. history_expire_days browser. history_expire_days_min browser