601443 - No way to keep history clean in 4.0

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 538044

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Devin Cofer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6

After updating to 4.0 beta, I became aware that no longer was it possible to keep all history deleted except that of the most recent X days.

Searching Bugzilla, I found https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538044#c1 , which suggests that it was removed because it was 'fake privacy'.

I agree that it is fake privacy, however, it does help to keep the history database fairly lean, and make the "awesomebar" a better tool by eliminating suggestions of old results.

Please consider reverting this change and allowing (perhaps OCD) users to keep a lean, accurate history database easily.

Filed as a bug because it is a regression in feature-parity from the last release and because it is not a new request that would require new code of any form.

Thanks for your time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Visit Preferences->Privacy->History.
Actual Results:  
There is no present option to force Firefox to delete history older than X days.

Expected Results:  
A method of keeping the history database clean.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Creating a dupe bug report doesn't help. You can add a comment to bug 538044 if you have something useful to say

Comment 2

[Devin Cofer]

I wasn't aware that it counted as a duplicate, considering 538044 is about the option not working back when it was present.