On 8/1/12 5:17 AM, Daniel wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote:
>> On 7/31/12 10:30 AM, Ant wrote:
>>> On 7/25/2012 8:35 PM PT, Ant typed:
>>>
>>>>> The terms 'compressed' and 'optimized' are questionable here.  The
>>>>> database is rebuilt;  the data is compressed within it, but the file
>>>>> size doesn't change, so you don't gain any disk space.  Also,
>>>>> rebuilding slows some db operations, so doing it too often will hurt
>>>>> performance somewhat.
>>>>>
>>>>> You could change the value of places.last_vacuum every day to
>>>>> constantly fool SeaMonkey into thinking the database hasn't been
>>>>> rebuilt in over a month, which should trigger frequent rebuilding.  That
>>>>> would be a bad idea, but if you want to do it anyway, it's measured in
>>>>> milliseconds.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. Bummer that it doesn't compress/shrink. :(
>>>
>>> I just noticed my places.sqlite has grown 20 MB after seventeen days.
>>> Maybe I should not use 30 days of history from PrefBar's ExpireHistory
>>> button since it can grow up over 30 MB within 30 days. :(
>>>
>>
>> On the Expire History button, you can select a number of days different
>> from 30.  Or you can right-click on your PrefBar toolbar, select
>> Customize Prefbar, select Expire History, right-click, and select Edit.
>>   Select the onClick tab of the Button window and change the 30 to some
>> other number of days.
>>
> 
> Or, with or without the Prefbar toolbar, you could just go to 
> Edit->Preferences->Browser->History and set the "Remember form....." 
> days to something less than current.
> 
> I have mine set to 10 days, plenty for me!!
> 

that only works for form and search history, not for pages-visited
history.

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