78915 - restrict the global history list to x elements

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55293

(Core Graveyard :: History: Global, enhancement)

Description

[Vladimir Bossicard]

Save of only the x last url visited (like in the session history).

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

what? This bug makes no sense. please explain what you're asking for, or I'll
mark this bug invalid.

Comment 2

[Claudius Gayle]

Edit|Preferences|Navigator|History - "Expire pages in History after X days"

that's how you limit your Global history entries. Recommend wontfix/invalid.

Comment 3

[Vladimir Bossicard]

Goal is to disable the insertion of items into the list and the saving in the
text file.  The option "Expire pages..." is not relevant because it is called
only in the destructor of nsGlobalHistory and not before the insertion and the
saving.

Solutions:
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- check the expiration date _before_ the insert: it will solve my problem but
not for people who want to keep the list only one day (which makes sense)
- quit the AddPage method before the insertion: what I do but IMHO not the
nicest solution
- limit the size of the list (like in the Session History) to x (in my case 0)
elements

But this last solution requires some work.

Comment 4

[Alec Flett]

ok, there's already a bug about expiring entries more regularily than just on
startup/shutdown, so I'm going to say this is a dupe of that.. otherwise I'll
just mark WONTFIX.. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55293 ***

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying Duplicate bugs which haven't changed since 2001.12.31.

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