Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Ilya wrote: I set the system date to the 1st of June and then to the 1st of July, visited a couple of sites and it seems everything works all right. Sorry my being a retard/sclerotic, the issue is over. Alas, it is not. Here's how the History window looked on the 1st of May: http://i.imgur.com/u6lIJT3.gif Here's how it looks now, on the 5th of June: http://i.imgur.com/P4sikSl.gif I didn't clear the History/Private Data. It seems SeaMonkey runs out of some resources and therefore drops the oldest history data. Any suggestions? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Ilya wrote: »Q« wrote: In about:config, you can try setting places.history.expiration.max_pages to a value larger than the value you see for places.history.expiration.max_pages. Thanks a lot, for some reason the places.history.expiration.max_pages setting was initially absent in about:config. I added it, set to a high number, and places.history.expiration.max_pages automatically took that value. Hope that will help. That is, `...and places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages automatically took that value`, sorry. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Ilya wrote: Ilya wrote: I set the system date to the 1st of June and then to the 1st of July, visited a couple of sites and it seems everything works all right. Sorry my being a retard/sclerotic, the issue is over. Alas, it is not. Here's how the History window looked on the 1st of May: http://i.imgur.com/u6lIJT3.gif Here's how it looks now, on the 5th of June: http://i.imgur.com/P4sikSl.gif I didn't clear the History/Private Data. It seems SeaMonkey runs out of some resources and therefore drops the oldest history data. Any suggestions? It can't be that simple. I have about 50,000 URLs in my browser history, some of them visited as long ago as January 8, 2012 (the last time I cleared it). There must be something else going on. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
David E. Ross wrote: On 6/4/13 4:58 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Ilya wrote: Ilya wrote: I set the system date to the 1st of June and then to the 1st of July, visited a couple of sites and it seems everything works all right. Sorry my being a retard/sclerotic, the issue is over. Alas, it is not. Here's how the History window looked on the 1st of May: http://i.imgur.com/u6lIJT3.gif Here's how it looks now, on the 5th of June: http://i.imgur.com/P4sikSl.gif I didn't clear the History/Private Data. It seems SeaMonkey runs out of some resources and therefore drops the oldest history data. Any suggestions? It can't be that simple. I have about 50,000 URLs in my browser history, some of them visited as long ago as January 8, 2012 (the last time I cleared it). There must be something else going on. See bug #660646 at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660646. I see that, but it wasn't the question as I understand it. Ilya was saying his system /does/ clear older entries even when he does not do so manually, and he doesn't want that. I replied that my own system /does not/ clear older entries, so the hypothesis that SM always does so cannot be true. There must be some difference between his system and mine that accounts for my long history and his short one. FWIW, I would love to have that capability back -- to be able to specify that entries older than nnn days should be cleared. I miss it. P.S. I double-checked and found that my system is retaining over 75,000 URLs in the history, and about:config specifies 104,858 as the maximum number at places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages. Another few months and it will have to start expiring older entries. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Ilya wrote: »Q« wrote: In about:config, you can try setting places.history.expiration.max_pages to a value larger than the value you see for places.history.expiration.max_pages. Thanks a lot, for some reason the places.history.expiration.max_pages setting was initially absent in about:config. I added it, set to a high number, and places.history.expiration.max_pages automatically took that value. Hope that will help. woooa. You ADDED a preference to about:config? I had no idea that was possible. How is that done? GW ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 01:37:41 +0300 Ilya i...@trtk.ru wrote: Ilya wrote: I set the system date to the 1st of June and then to the 1st of July, visited a couple of sites and it seems everything works all right. Sorry my being a retard/sclerotic, the issue is over. Alas, it is not. Here's how the History window looked on the 1st of May: http://i.imgur.com/u6lIJT3.gif Here's how it looks now, on the 5th of June: http://i.imgur.com/P4sikSl.gif I didn't clear the History/Private Data. It seems SeaMonkey runs out of some resources and therefore drops the oldest history data. Any suggestions? In about:config, you can try setting places.history.expiration.max_pages to a value larger than the value you see for places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Snip I see that, but it wasn't the question as I understand it. Ilya was saying his system /does/ clear older entries even when he does not do so manually, and he doesn't want that. I replied that my own system /does not/ clear older entries, so the hypothesis that SM always does so cannot be true. There must be some difference between his system and mine that accounts for my long history and his short one. FWIW, I would love to have that capability back -- to be able to specify that entries older than nnn days should be cleared. I miss it. P.S. I double-checked and found that my system is retaining over 75,000 URLs in the history, and about:config specifies 104,858 as the maximum number at places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages. Another few months and it will have to start expiring older entries. Paul, any idea how old the oldest of you75,000 retained URL's is?? -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 SeaMonkey/2.18 Build identifier: 20130502201647 or User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 SeaMonkey/2.18 Build identifier: 20130403022815 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
On 6/4/13 4:58 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Ilya wrote: Ilya wrote: I set the system date to the 1st of June and then to the 1st of July, visited a couple of sites and it seems everything works all right. Sorry my being a retard/sclerotic, the issue is over. Alas, it is not. Here's how the History window looked on the 1st of May: http://i.imgur.com/u6lIJT3.gif Here's how it looks now, on the 5th of June: http://i.imgur.com/P4sikSl.gif I didn't clear the History/Private Data. It seems SeaMonkey runs out of some resources and therefore drops the oldest history data. Any suggestions? It can't be that simple. I have about 50,000 URLs in my browser history, some of them visited as long ago as January 8, 2012 (the last time I cleared it). There must be something else going on. See bug #660646 at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660646. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Are taxes too high in the U.S.? Check the bar graph at http://www.rossde.com/taxes/trickling.html to see. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Geoff Welsh wrote: woooa. You ADDED a preference to about:config? I had no idea that was possible. How is that done? GW Open about:config, rightclick on any setting and choose new, then the data type for the new setting. I agree, that's not absolotely obvious :) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Daniel wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Snip I see that, but it wasn't the question as I understand it. Ilya was saying his system /does/ clear older entries even when he does not do so manually, and he doesn't want that. I replied that my own system /does not/ clear older entries, so the hypothesis that SM always does so cannot be true. There must be some difference between his system and mine that accounts for my long history and his short one. FWIW, I would love to have that capability back -- to be able to specify that entries older than nnn days should be cleared. I miss it. P.S. I double-checked and found that my system is retaining over 75,000 URLs in the history, and about:config specifies 104,858 as the maximum number at places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages. Another few months and it will have to start expiring older entries. Paul, any idea how old the oldest of you75,000 retained URL's is?? In the message before the one you quote, I said: It can't be that simple. I have about 50,000 URLs in my browser history, some of them visited as long ago as January 8, 2012 (the last time I cleared it). There must be something else going on. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Daniel: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: [History] and about:config specifies 104,858 as the maximum number at places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages. Same value here. Seems to be a default. Paul, any idea how old the oldest of you75,000 retained URL's is?? Expanding 'older than 6 month' and then sorting by 'Last Visited' shows as oldest entry 09.10.2011 11:51. Hartmut ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: add to about:config, was Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Geoff Welsh wrote: Ilya wrote: Geoff Welsh wrote: woooa. You ADDED a preference to about:config? I had no idea that was possible. How is that done? GW Open about:config, rightclick on any setting and choose new, then the data type for the new setting. I agree, that's not absolotely obvious :) Cool. Not that I'd know what to add, but it's good to know it's possible, if a new install was missing something, e.g.. Can you delete them too? (I'm afraid to try it.) Feasible, but you'd better know what you're doing. Like asking if you can remove parts of a car -- some are more essential than others. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Daniel wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Snip I see that, but it wasn't the question as I understand it. Ilya was saying his system /does/ clear older entries even when he does not do so manually, and he doesn't want that. I replied that my own system /does not/ clear older entries, so the hypothesis that SM always does so cannot be true. There must be some difference between his system and mine that accounts for my long history and his short one. FWIW, I would love to have that capability back -- to be able to specify that entries older than nnn days should be cleared. I miss it. P.S. I double-checked and found that my system is retaining over 75,000 URLs in the history, and about:config specifies 104,858 as the maximum number at places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages. Another few months and it will have to start expiring older entries. Paul, any idea how old the oldest of you75,000 retained URL's is?? In the message before the one you quote, I said: It can't be that simple. I have about 50,000 URLs in my browser history, some of them visited as long ago as January 8, 2012 (the last time I cleared it). There must be something else going on. O.K., Thanks, Paul! -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 SeaMonkey/2.18 Build identifier: 20130502201647 or User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 SeaMonkey/2.18 Build identifier: 20130403022815 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
»Q« wrote: In about:config, you can try setting places.history.expiration.max_pages to a value larger than the value you see for places.history.expiration.max_pages. Thanks a lot, for some reason the places.history.expiration.max_pages setting was initially absent in about:config. I added it, set to a high number, and places.history.expiration.max_pages automatically took that value. Hope that will help. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: add to about:config, was Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:06:19 -1000 Geoff Welsh g...@some.rr.com wrote: Ilya wrote: Geoff Welsh wrote: woooa. You ADDED a preference to about:config? I had no idea that was possible. How is that done? GW Open about:config, rightclick on any setting and choose new, then the data type for the new setting. I agree, that's not absolotely obvious :) Cool. Not that I'd know what to add, but it's good to know it's possible, if a new install was missing something, e.g.. Can you delete them too? (I'm afraid to try it.) You can delete ones you've added, by choosing reset. But you can't remove ones that exist by default -- resetting them just returns them to their default state. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
add to about:config, was Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Ilya wrote: Geoff Welsh wrote: woooa. You ADDED a preference to about:config? I had no idea that was possible. How is that done? GW Open about:config, rightclick on any setting and choose new, then the data type for the new setting. I agree, that's not absolotely obvious :) Cool. Not that I'd know what to add, but it's good to know it's possible, if a new install was missing something, e.g.. Can you delete them too? (I'm afraid to try it.) GW ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:54:33 +0300 Ilya i...@trtk.ru wrote: Ilya wrote: »Q« wrote: In about:config, you can try setting places.history.expiration.max_pages to a value larger than the value you see for places.history.expiration.max_pages. Thanks a lot, for some reason the places.history.expiration.max_pages setting was initially absent in about:config. I added it, set to a high number, and places.history.expiration.max_pages automatically took that value. Hope that will help. That is, `...and places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages automatically took that value`, sorry. Also in my quoted text above, it was ... the value you see for places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages. If places.history.expiration.max_pages is unset, which is the default, then places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages takes a value based on your system resources. (I don't know what the algorithm is.) Setting places.history.expiration.max_pages is the way to override that value. If you set it too high, you may see a drop in performance when it comes to bookmarks, history, c. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Ilya wrote: To make it completely clear: this is how my History window looks: http://i.imgur.com/u6lIJT3.gif I want February, January, Previous year and so on listed there too. (I'd attach the screenshot to the message, but the newsgroup server seems to block messages with attachments). You can make it start remembering from now on (as you seem to have done), but you can't make it remember what it's already forgotten. Edit | Preferences | Browser | History [x] Remember visited pages SeaMonkey is perfectly capable of remembering pages visited a year ago if it started remembering a year ago and you've never cleared the history since then. In short, if you want six months' history, you have to run the program for six months without clearing the history. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: In short, if you want six months' history, you have to run the program for six months without clearing the history. Paul, I understand that, I'm not that terribly stupid :) Of course I have been running SeaMonkey for quite a number of months (probably for two years or so), the Remember visited pages checkbox was always checked and I don't remember clearing the history. So it's either a bug, or my memory fails me (if so, I do apologize) or anything else. Thanks for answering anyway, at least now I know it works properly for others. Think I'll just have to wait till the end of May to see if my SeaMonkey remembers (or forgets) the history for March. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Ilya wrote: Think I'll just have to wait till the end of May to see if my SeaMonkey remembers (or forgets) the history for March. I set the system date to the 1st of June and then to the 1st of July, visited a couple of sites and it seems everything works all right. Sorry my being a retard/sclerotic, the issue is over. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Ilya wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: In short, if you want six months' history, you have to run the program for six months without clearing the history. Paul, I understand that, I'm not that terribly stupid :) Didn't mean to say that. Я ведь не такой хам! Of course I have been running SeaMonkey for quite a number of months (probably for two years or so), the Remember visited pages checkbox was always checked and I don't remember clearing the history. So it's either a bug, or my memory fails me (if so, I do apologize) or anything else. Thanks for answering anyway, at least now I know it works properly for others. Think I'll just have to wait till the end of May to see if my SeaMonkey remembers (or forgets) the history for March. One other place to check: Edit | Preferences | Privacy Security [x] Always clear my private data when I close SeaMonkey [ ] Ask me before clearing private data When I ask SeaMonkey to clear my private data, it should erase: ... [ ] Browsing history == ... If private data is defined as including browser history, it will clear the history every time it clears private data. Even if you don't have it set to do this on shutdown, it will clear the history if you issue the command manually and the definition includes the browser history. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Hello, guys. In the History window SeaMonkey only shows me URLs that I visited in the recent three months, but the history.dat file in the profile folder takes about 80 mb, which lets me assume it contains much more data on the visited sites. Is there a way to display all the visited sites, not only those visited in the recent three months? May be some preferences accessible via about:config? (didn't manage to find anything though). ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
On 2013-04-30 10:34 PM, Ilya wrote: Hello, guys. In the History window SeaMonkey only shows me URLs that I visited in the recent three months, but the history.dat file in the profile folder takes about 80 mb, which lets me assume it contains much more data on the visited sites. Is there a way to display all the visited sites, not only those visited in the recent three months? May be some preferences accessible via about:config? (didn't manage to find anything though). History.dat is not used anymore. Your browsing history (and bookmarks) is stored in places.sqlite. For more info about what files are used for what, visit http://www.seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/#files. -- Chris Ilias http://ilias.ca Newsgroup moderator ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Chris Ilias wrote: History.dat is not used anymore. Your browsing history (and bookmarks) is stored in places.sqlite. For more info about what files are used for what, visit http://www.seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/#files. I see, thanks, Chris. But anyway, it there a way to make SeaMonkey remember more visited URLs? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Ilya wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: History.dat is not used anymore. Your browsing history (and bookmarks) is stored in places.sqlite. For more info about what files are used for what, visit http://www.seamonkey.ilias.ca/profilefaq/#files. I see, thanks, Chris. But anyway, it there a way to make SeaMonkey remember more visited URLs? Go-History? Larry S. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
Larry S. wrote: But anyway, it there a way to make SeaMonkey remember more visited URLs? Go-History? This will open the History window that will show the URLs I visited in May, April and March. The URLs I visited before March are not shown. I try to find a way to get SeaMonkey remember and show all the URLs I have visited, not only the ones I visited in the current month and in the two previous ones. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Number of URLs shown in the History window.
To make it completely clear: this is how my History window looks: http://i.imgur.com/u6lIJT3.gif I want February, January, Previous year and so on listed there too. (I'd attach the screenshot to the message, but the newsgroup server seems to block messages with attachments). ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
