[olug] completely disabling history in firefox

Kris Gainsforth krisguy at alltel.net
Mon Jul 12 03:35:38 UTC 2004


That doesn't work either.  I tried that, even changing ownership to
root:root. No luck.

On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 22:18, Sean Edwards wrote:
> You could create a soft link to /dev/null.  Your
> mileage may vary:
> 
> ln -s ~/.mozilla/firefox/history.dat /dev/null
> 
> -=Sean Edwards=-
> cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
> 
> --- Kris Gainsforth <krisguy at alltel.net> wrote:
> > I'm trying to turn off that annoying little dropdown
> > box from the URL
> > bar in Firefox on SuSE 9.1 Pro.  I try to chmod the
> > history.dat file in
> > my .mozilla/firefox folder, but when I run Firefox,
> > it automatically
> > changes permissions from 444 to 644.  Does anyone
> > have a clue about what
> > to do about this?
> > 
> > BTW, the Firefox was installed from SuSE's rpm off
> > their ftp site.
> > 
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