On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:33:16 -0500, "Paul B. Gallagher" <[email protected]> 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 enabled saving browser >> history and selected searching for 180 days. I'm running SM 2.5 >> under XP. >> >> I'm looking for the browser history file(s) because I don't do SM >> maintenance from within SM, I use batch files. Forex: for many >> years, a batch file I run only on the first boot of any day clears >> the cache directory in my SM profile. Purpose was to manage HD space >> by removing that big bunch of cookies - but could that now be >> affecting my browser history? > >If your objective is to clear cookies, you can set SM to do that every >time it exits. See under Edit | Preferences | Advanced | Privacy & >Security. -- Provided you close SM from time to time. > >Unless you're a wildman on the web, I don't see where clearing cookies >is going to save you much disk space, though. Your cache probably takes >up a hundred to a thousand times more space, and you can set that to >clear on exit as well, at the same dialog. > Sorry, I should not have mentioned clearing the cache - it distracted from my question on browser history. But, responding to your comments: Clearing things like cookies is an old practice from years ago - days of 640 K ram & 10 Meg HDs etc. And not every exit - cookies are handy but not many days worth and can be valuable for analysis after being knocked off line (that's why I limit the clearing to the first boot-up of the day). Also, SM is opened and closed many times during a day - it is only one of over a dozen major apps I use regularly. -- JohnW-Mpls _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
