History don't auto delete

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PGx
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History don't auto delete

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I have history set to 3-days, yet I have history including all of January. Prev. I deleted other earlier months. What's going on? Is this a bug?
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See if this will hep.
The setting in the options dialog is to store history for at least the number of days that you choose. To set a maximum number of days you need to change a hidden setting.

Type about:config into the location bar and press enter. This brings up a list or preferences.
Locate the preference browser.history_expire_days, double-click on it and change the value to the maximum number of days to keep the history.
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Thanks Platon_. Done. I noticed that "at least" - what the heck it that about? Clearly something changed in one of the versions - why? Seems counter-intuitive and misleading to say the least. What am I missing?

Thanks again.
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Sorry, I can't answer that question. I am missing the point too :|
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Yes, it is kind of a strange way to handle History. Seems to me that it would be very simple to add another line in Options to have "Keep no more..." or something like that in addition to the min. Some of the "basic" settings in Firefox seem to be "non-user" friendly.
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Even though I set browser.history_expire_days = 3. I still see "last 7 days" history, although I no longer see January. What the heck???
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Yes, but the 3 days that you have set it to "are within" the last 7 days... that's why it displays. When you look at the exact history within that 7 day line you should only see his. for the 3 days that you set.... look at the dates.
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How can I see the dates for the history items?
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On your Menu line... Bookmarks/Organize Bookmarks and then when that window opens up ... in the upper left hand corner the History stuff is displayed... click on the 7 days line and history will display in the right pane. If you don's see Visited date there then you need to add it to your display...by right clicking on the header of that right pane and choosing what you want displayed.... or clicking on View and making changes there.
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OK, thanks very much. As you say, only the last 3-days. Good!
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You're welcome.
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In FF6 the above no longer true. i.e. browser.history_expire_days no longer exists(?), but there is a browser.history_expire_days_min & browser.history_expire_days.mirror. I have both set to 3, but not sure what good they are or what they actually do. All my history since March is still there. I only want 3-days of history saved. What do I do?

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Thanks for the links.

I think it is outrageous that FF doesn't allow you to set a time limit on history. I want the last 3 days of pages only. I don't want to have to manually delete my history each day for anything older than 3-days. I do not want to NOT track history. Why would the FF developer's be so obstinate on this point?
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