On 2017-10-18, David E. Ross wrote: > On 10/18/2017 1:30 AM, Ant wrote: >> Mine gets up to 30 MB with 30 days of histories. :/ >> >> Thank you in advance. :) >> > > I believe places.sqlite is forced to be at least 10 MB. This was done > at the same time (around 2011) the ability of users to have the history > of visiting a Web page automatically expire after some user-set number > of days. Now, history expires for the oldest entry only when some > excessive number of history entries are stored. > > Before doing a system-wide backup, I run SpeedyFox, which currently > reduces the size to 2.7 MB. That reverts back to 10 MB when I terminate > my browser. I got SpeedyFox at <http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox>.
To add another way of doing the same: Under a UNIX-like system, it should be possible to do this with the sqlite commandline tool, when it is available. Run "sqlite3 places.sqlite", and then, inside the tool, run the command "VACUUM;". (But close the browser before doing any of this!) But Seamonkey/Firefox/... will, of course, revert this to 10 MB. It is annoying, especially when you have several profiles, as you can quickly reach the 100 MB mark just because of these files... -- Nuno Silva _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
