1136132 - More "Clear Recent History" Time range choices

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 581308

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Jan-Ivar Bruaroey [:jib] (needinfo? me)]

While testing Bug 1046245, I was surprised by the limited number of choices given in the "Time range to clear" in the "Clear Recent History" dialog: Last Hour, Last Two Hours, Last Four Hours, Today, and Everything.

Questionable browsing would not seem limited to 4 hours, especially at 1am in the morning. I could see someone faced with the false choice of erasing everything or nothing in that case, leading to frustration.

I expected more time choices akin to those offered by search engines, at least: Past 24 hours, Past week, Past month.

Having seen how flexible the underlying engine is, this seems like low hanging "privacy feature" improvement fruit to me.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

last month seems confusing and maybe of doubtful usefulness. I can barely figure use-cases to be willing to clear a month rather than everything. Do you really remember what you visited more than a couple weeks ago? If not, there's no big point in clearing a month and keeping everything else.

7 days seems more useful, but I'd replace "Past Week" with "Last 7 days", to avoid confusion.

Comment 2

[Jan-Ivar Bruaroey [:jib] (needinfo? me)]

Makes sense. Btw, have we considered "Last 2 days"? It would be useful especially after midnight.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

That's another possible option.

I think there is some ongoing work to redesign the Clear Recent History dialog but I'm not sure who is following that effort.

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

ok this is basically a dupe of bug 581308, I'll comment there about the suggested ranges.