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
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> History is now part of the database in places.sqlite. There is some
>> disatisfaction among users about this implementation, primarily
>> regarding the inability to set an expiration interval beyond which
>> history entries expire and are removed. See bug #660646 at
>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660646>.
>
>
> Thanks, I located my places.sqlite and it is quite large (not cleared with
> the cache. In the browser this morning, I have a historical URL from
> yesterday, so it's sorta working - I'll have to play around in preferences
> some more. And I'll check out the bug.
[snipped]
The developers thought they were doing us a favor by making
places.sqlite a fixed 10 MB. I think (not sure) that it can actually
grow but only in 10 MB increments. 10 MB is beyond excessive for many
of those users who (like me) would expire history after 30 days. This
was another of the complaints against the implementation that put
history into places.sqlite. See but #662858 at
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662858>.
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