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About the omnibar: does anyone know what its limitations are? It seems to lose sites I only use somewhat infrequently. It's frustrating when I know I've been th
by Felz 8y ago
About the omnibar: does anyone know what its limitations are? It seems to lose sites I only use somewhat infrequently. It's frustrating when I know I've been there plenty of times, but nothing pops up.
- olejorgenb 8y agoMight be because the browser history is limited by default: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1039372 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1039372 Details on the ranking algorithm: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/Places/Frecency_algorithm https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/Places...
- Felz 8y agoThanks! That might be it. For future notice though, the answer in the first link is wrong; you want "places.history.expiration.current_max_pages", not "places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages". Apparently the max "pages" are automatically calculated by default- mine was around 160k, so my history only went back about 2.5 years. I've set it to the maximum value for a 32 bit integer, which I guess should fix the problem for the next 20 or so years. Kind of annoying that Firefox's default is to delete things when you told it not to delete things.
- olejorgenb 8y agoThey do it for performance reasons, but I've not noticed any slowdowns yet at least. Still - would be better if they had a limit on how long back they searched instead of actually deleting data. That would most likely be more work ofc.