1656521 - Delete history older than x

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Data Sanitization, enhancement, P5)

Description

[wojtek]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:79.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/79.0

Steps to reproduce:

Searched the internet for a long time. Also tried going to History -> "older than 6 months" -> Delete which hung the browser and nothing got deleted (about 30k items)

Actual results:

Nothing... still have complete history

Expected results:

I should be able to:

• easily remove history older than ("clean history" option in firefox)
• be able to configure Firefox to store items only of maximum age (history/cookies) - why on earth I would need history older than, let's say, 6 months?!

Comment 1

[Marcela (Please NI request to Brindusa Tot)]

Hi, this sounds like an enhancement, I will set a component to have a starting point for this. If this is not the right component please feel free to route this ticket to the corresponding team, thanks!

Comment 2

[Paul Zühlcke [:pbz]]

The ClearDataService, at least partially, has this capability: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/21f0bb70ce5747d18625ad1c67f03ed2af7f9c56/toolkit/components/cleardata/nsIClearDataService.idl#113
However, we don't expose this to the UI and there is no automated way to clear data of a specific age.

For the performance issue, see Bug 734643.