On 7/15/12 5:27 PM, Ant wrote: > On 7/15/2012 2:01 PM PT, David E. Ross typed: > >> On 7/15/12 10:19 AM, Ant wrote: >>> On 7/15/2012 10:16 AM PT, David E. Ross typed: >>> >>> > Do you have the PrefBar extension installed? If so, get the Expire >>> > History Button from >>>> <http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/buttons.html#expirehistory> and import it >>>> into PrefBar. While the default is 30 days, you can set another number >>>> of days. To change the default, you can also download and edit the .xpi >>>> file before importing. >>> >>> Ah thanks. Yes, I do. So SM v2.10.1 uses 30 days by default. That's good >>> enough for me then. If I need to change that, then I will get that >>> PrefBar button. :) >>> >> >> No, no, no! >> >> 30 days is the default in PrefBar's Expire History Button. >> >> SM 2.10.1 uses the Mozilla Toolkit, which only controls the size of the >> history SQLite database, purging old entries when the database gets full. > > OH!! OK, then I will download and install it. How many entries does that > Mozilla Toolkit hold in its database then? >
It's not the number of entries but the size of the SQLite file. The file is places.sqlite, which contains both bookmarks and history and is 10 MB. This is the result of a very strange design that closely links bookmarks and history. The more bookmarks you have, the less history is allowed. The user has no control -- even with hidden preferences -- over the size of the file. It's fixed at 10MB. When the file gets full, history is deleted. I have no idea what might happen if a user tries to save so many bookmarks that the entire 10 MB is consumed with them. When I export my ~1,100 bookmarks into an HTML file, the result is less than 0.5 MB. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
