Comments on: Happy Form History Expiration Day!

By: John

John — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:26:09 +0000

It seems that the applied patch disregards browser.history_expire_days_min, which is the only UI-visible setting that has a matching meaning.

By: Mike Beltzner

Mike Beltzner — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:43:16 +0000

Hey Justin,

Great post; I’m assuming this only applies to form data, and not to saved passwords (addressing Axel’s comment) nor mime types (addressing Jesse’s).

By: Jesse Ruderman

Jesse Ruderman — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:43:25 +0000

I was sad to see Firefox forget some of the mime types I use for Bugzilla attachments.

By: Axel Hecht

Axel Hecht — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:40:10 +0000

Hrm. I do have rarely used passwords etc. Like, the contract number when I hire a car, which I don’t do that often.

It feels kinda sad that we through away small chunks of data just to not get flooded by large chunks.

Couldn’t we modify this to just remove old data if it’s part of a huge chunk? In particular if there’s no way to tune the time range without changing my other history settings.

By: Philip Chee

Philip Chee — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:59:11 +0000

Hmm,

How will this affect extensions that use nsIFormHistory2 to store (some) of their data? Hopefully this will not lead to mysterious data-loss problems.