Firefox: clear history?

[ggulliver]

Can Firefox be set to only keep recent history?
It now seems to be all-or-nothing.

And, with many thousands of entries, FF is hanging when trying to manually delete; is there a workaround?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Yes it can! Go into Firefox's preferences, and change the setting from "Remember history" to "Use custom settings for history". Then you can configure how long it remembers.

 

[ggulliver]

Not any more - that option has gone.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Weird. I just looked in about:config, and it seems to be gone from there too!

 

[ggulliver]

Thanks anyway.

 

[r0k]

Weird. I just looked in about:config, and it seems to be gone from there too!

Thanks anyway.

If you remember what it was called in about:config, try adding it back manually. It's carry over code base so it might just work.

Sadly I had to give up on FF when it kept hanging my Macbook and my wife's Mini. We are all using Chrome these days and Safari for the occasional web page that doesn't look right in Chrome.

I think it was once called browser.history_expire_days.