On 7/16/12 6:38 PM, »Q« wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:31:45 -0700
> "David E. Ross" <[email protected]> wrote:
>  
>> 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.
> 
> Do you know of a bug filed for making the size configurable by the
> user? The last few comments on bug 581606, in which the 10MB size was
> set, raise the issue but I couldn't find anything else in bugzilla for
> it.
> 
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581606#c33>

I'm not aware of any bug to allow the user to specify the size of
places.sqlite.

In any case, I think implementation of Bug 660646 to restore the
expiration of entries after a user-set number of days should have
priority.

-- 

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.
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