On 7/15/2012 7:31 PM 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.
Yeah, mine is currently 10.0 MB (10,485,760 bytes). I also noticed that
I could manually reuse it by copying between machines with their
SeaMonkey v2.10.1 installations. It even worked with Linux/Debian's
installation as well. So I would have both history and bookmarks
combined! :)
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.
Ah. So we have no way to see what is inside with the bookmarks,
histories, etc. interacting?
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.
Dang. My bookmarks.html, before importing, was about 280 KB. These
includes bookmarklets. :P
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