windows 7 - How to get browsing history report date-wise in Firefox?
2014-07
How to get browsing history report date-wise in Firefox?
by default it shows monthly, weekly and last day. I need to know for each day.
If you go to History>Show All History (Or press Ctrl+Shift+H) you get a dialog with all your history in it. Right click on the background of the column titles (ie "Name", "Tags", "Location", etc.) and make sure "Visit Date" is checked. You now have a column that shows the date visited, and you can sort by date visited.
These save history by date
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/682/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14642/
This saves bookmarks by date only.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/182864/
I want to setup Firefox 4 to only store my history for 1 day (or some other set period of time), but I can't seem to find an option to do that in the options dialog, all I can see is "Remember History", "Never Remember History" and "Custom History Settings". "Custom History Settings" only lets me select what to keep, not for how long.
Is there anyway I can do this?
Too bad, it seems one can no longer use browser.history_expire_days
to force the cache to be deleted. Written in January 2010:
Originally expiration was managed by History component itself on three major steps: after each visit, during idle, at shutdown. [..] The new component is a JS component, it runs expiration in steps, every 3 minutes, with a simple adaptive algorithm, so that if the last step did not expire enough, the next one will be run later, while if it finds more items than the expired ones, the next step will expire more!
Somehow the Firefox folks think limiting history is just about performance, not about privacy:
The new component is able to detect your hardware specs, especially memory size, and adapt expiration to it, this means you don't need anymore to tweak number of days of history, or whatever.
And so:
[..] hidden expiration preferences have gone, so
browser.history_expire_days
,browser.history_expire_days_min
,browser.history_expire_sites
are now replaced by a singleplaces.history.enabled
preference.
...though:
[..] two new hidden preferences:
places.history.expiration.interval_seconds
is number of seconds between each expiration step, whileplaces.history.expiration.max_pages
is maximum number of pages that we will retain before expiring.
(In old versions one could go into about:config
and change browser.history_expire_days
and browser.history_expire_days_min
. The latter is still present in Firefox 4 beta on my Mac, but probably not used. The first is gone altogether. In the older versions, according to some article, one might actually have wanted to add browser.history_expire_days
manually.)
Note that deleted history entries might in fact still be stored in the database places.sqlite
, just being marked as deleted. Vacuuming that file compacts it, removing everything that is supposed to be deleted. And as an aside: this is not all history that is kept on your computer. Like Flash keeps its own trail too.
If you type about:config
in your address bar and then filter for history
you'll find the entries browser.history_expire_days
and browser.history_expire_days_min
. Try setting those to 1 day.
I'm not using Firefox 4, so I can't test this now, but I assume those options are still present.
you can use the expire history by days addon to restore the functionality
History expiration is now controlled in an unusual way:
Expiration is based on hardware specs, specifically on memory size and CPU cores. This means on mobile and old systems expiration will be more aggressive than on high-end hardware, to try keep the database size at a reasonable (and performant) value.
But it is still configurable via about:config
preferences, use this one:
places.history.expiration.max_pages: The maximum number of pages that may be retained in the database before starting to expire. Default value is calculated on startup and put into the places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages preference. This transient version of the preference is just mirroring the current value used by expiration, setting it won't have any effect.
So you can make its value smaller or greater to shorten or prolong expiration time correspondingly.