269619 - The locationbar does not respond to changes in browser.sessionhistory.max_entries

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Andreas Wesik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

I want the locationbar to not have any history of visited URLs (yes, I'm paranoid).
In earlier versions I think setting the history = 0 days in the GUI menu was
enough to get rid of all the sites in the locationbar history but not so with
Firefox 1.0
So after some searching I found out about the about:config entry
"browser.sessionhistory.max_entries" and tried setting that to 0.
And then I tried setting it to 1.
And still all sites I've visited sine my last start-up of Firefox is remembered.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. set "browser.sessionhistory.max_entries" to 0 in about:config
2. enter "www.aftonbladet.se" in locationbar and press enter
3. enter "www.expressen.se" in locationbar and press enter
4. enter "www.snopes.com" in locationbar and press enter
5. press the down-arrow at the right side of the locationbar and be amazed to
see all sites remembered regardless of "browser.sessionhistory.max_entries"
settings.
Actual Results:  
Locationbar is still remembering old URLs

Expected Results:  
Show now URLs with possible exception of current one.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This pref doesn't do what you think it does, it controls how many entries are
stored in the back/forward queue.