On 9/11/2014 9:06 AM, flyguy wrote: > When I group "by day" and look in the "Older than 6 months" folder, it > seems to have all the sites I've visited in the last 13 months, not just > old ones. > > Worse, I have my Preferences>Browser>History> "Remember form and search > history" set to 90 days, but have jillions older than that. > > Unexpectedly, the Month folders seem to contain every website visited > from that month to the present, rather than just the specific month. > > If I group by "None", I am unable to delete websites, but I can delete > them if I group by "Day". > > What the heck is going on? >
It appears that, if you visit a Web site today and you previously visited that same site last month, the site will appear twice in your history. If you visit a site today, the same site last week, and the same site last month, it would appear three times in your history. That was NOT the way it used to work. Previously, the entry from last month would be moved to today; only one entry would appear. All this is a result of the "improvement" about three years ago that moved history to places.sqlite and removed the ability for users to set a age-limit on history and get entries older than that limit deleted. The Expire History button in the PrefBar extension (an extra button available at <http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/buttons.html#expirehistory>) allows users to expire old history. However, this requires a manual request from the end-user instead of the automatic deletion of old history that used to exist. I believe this is an example of "improvements" that benefit the developers, not the end-users. Another such "improvement" now means that expired cookies are not deleted from the Cookie Manager, making it harder for end-users to find specific entries among a long list of cookies. -- David E. Ross The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland. The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia. See <http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
