David E. Ross wrote:
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.
For sites that I have visited many times to see many different pages, I
have many different entries -- but only one per page. If I return to
YouTube and play the same favorite vid over and over, SM keeps updating
the history and by changing the date/time stamp.
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.
In my experience, expired cookies are deleted whenever cookies are
purged. You can do this manually by clearing private data, or
automatically by setting SM to do so on exit. And of course if you want
to go the extra mile, you can go into the Cookie Manager and manually
delete cookies individually or en masse.
As for locating a particular cookie, I find it relatively easy by
selecting the originating domain in the Cookie Manager; it's rare for
any domain to set more than 15 or 20. Of course, since I have SM set to
clear all cookies on exit, I'm not distracted by the clutter of old
cookies; I can't even say if those are automatically removed or not.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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