90561 - Need GUI control to limit SIZE of History file

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: History: Global, enhancement)

Description

[Mitch Green]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2)
Gecko/20010711 Netscape6/6.1
BuildID:    20010710

The current controls over History file size are by "date" sites were visited. 
We need to add a GUI control to limit the file size as well.  In deployments
that install Profiles onto network drives, startup and shutdown times are long
due to the ability for the history file to grow unbounded in size.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1

[Harald Glatt]

changing sevrity from normal to enhancement;
changing url to ""
confirming bug

Comment 2

[Alec Flett]

argh.. take two at reassigning history bugs to new owner

Comment 3

[Alec Flett]

*yawn* disk space is cheap.

Comment 4

[Tim Connors]

(In reply to comment #3)
> *yawn* disk space is cheap.

Disk space may be cheap (I love that attitude -- I'm glad you don't live in
poverty, or have to support thousands of users, or ...), but with the current
implementation of history and download manager, it is unusably slow with even a
few thousand entries, seriously crippling the usefulness of mozilla et al.

Of course, the bug reporter is asking for the wrong problem to be solved.  He
should be asking for the broken unscalable nature of simple list handling in
mozilla to be fixed.