1517888 - Providing option to not remember URLs with fragments

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Places, enhancement)

Description

[u610396]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open a webpage which uses fragments to provide jumps to its sections. For example:

- https://test.a#1
- https://test.a#2
- https://test.a#3


Actual results:

Firefox will remember all those URLs.


Expected results:

May I ask if you could provide an option to tell Firefox not to remember URLs ending with fragments? It's because I think they mess with my history.

Thank you,

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

:mak, this seems like the kind of fine-grained control left up to add-ons, e.g.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/keyword-history-cleaner/
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/regex-history-filter/

Comment 2

[u610396]

Thank you, I understand.

I have some examples:

- With javadocs, it uses _a lot_ of fragments. But on the top of the page, it usually has a table of content, with convenient links to sections.

- With Rust docs, it also uses a lot of fragments. But the left side navigation panel is already useful.

In both cases, the history items are redundant (for me).

So from my view, I think it would be great if you could add this as a built-in feature. I've wanted to file this feature request years ago, but then I've tried to get used to the history. But until now, I really wish to have this feature. Even if you could add this as a flag to `about:config` page, it would be enough.

I have a small un-related question. May I ask if you could help? I've found `places.sqlite` in profile directory. There's a table `moz_places` in there. Is it safe to clear that table's items?

I'll understand if you don't want to add this feature.

Thank you,

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

The problem is that our architecture considers urls with different refs as different urls, changing that now would be a large effort, and the benefit so far looks small. So, high cost for small benefit means this is unlikely to happen. I'm sorry.
An add-on could probably help with keeping history cleaner... As suggested.