604823 - Make history menu length configurable

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Noticed this aspect of my interaction with the History menu, thought it would be worth capturing.

I inevitably want to go back to the 11th item in my History, which isn't displayed in the menu. Show All History is clunky and unwieldy; two more clicks and an extra window to find the item I want. My modern LCD display isn't lacking in space.

If I had my way, I'd hit about:config, find browser.history.displayedEntries, and change it to 30 from 10. 10 is fine as a default to avoid crowding new users.

This bug: make a config entry for this limit, and make the History menu obey it.

(If I get really motivated, I'll grab this for myself...!)

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

This has previously been filed in 2008 and wontfixed in 2009 "due to the dearth of requests for this, and the existence of the workarounds in comment #1.": bug 448427.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.