[olug] completely disabling history in firefox

Sean Edwards cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 12 12:14:48 UTC 2004


Did you try setting browser.session.max_entries to 0
in about:config?

If you go to about:config, and do a search for
history, a few interesting settings pop up.

-=Sean Edwards=-
cybersean3000 at yahoo.com

--- Kris Gainsforth <krisguy at alltel.net> wrote:
> 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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