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Reviews for Expire history by days

Expire history by days by Mak

Rated 4.1 out of 5
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Review by mandeath
Rated 5 out of 5
by mandeath, 4 years ago
Аддон отличный, но долгое время не может обновиться через браузер. Попыталась скачать xpi с сайта, тоже не устанавливается, пишет, что файл поврежден.
19 reviews
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by Firefox user 14336325, 2 months ago
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    by Firefox user 15962298, 10 months ago
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    by Filipi, a year ago
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    by Firefox user 15108350, a year ago
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    by Bill, a year ago
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    by Ale, 2 years ago
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    by martux, 2 years ago
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    by Ed, 2 years ago
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    by Termie , 2 years ago
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by Firefox user 14242164, 3 years ago
    Thanks for creating this add-on. Works great.
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by THX1138, 3 years ago
    Must have!
    Funktioniert perfekt!
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by Dmitry Paskal, 3 years ago
    Works like a charm, set history clean for 7 days, gave it some time - history after week is gone. Shame they removed this from standard functionality after Firefox 3.
  • Rated 2 out of 5
    by jbclem, 3 years ago
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    by Vlad D, 3 years ago
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13507221, 3 years ago
  • Rated 2 out of 5
    by rosekitsune1, 4 years ago
    I set this add-on for 31 days and... this adon is not removing removing my history after 31 days.
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13185292, 4 years ago
    I search for a plugin that deletes my history after an hour or change the Settings so Firefox only save for instance 100 pages and then delete the first saved page.
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13113392, 4 years ago
    All I want is a truly infinite history, going as far back as I can stretch it. Some day I want to look back at the pages I visited 10 years ago. Yes, I know that could cause performance issues. I don't care. If it gets that bad (and I haven't noticed any issues so far storing two years worth of history), I'll back up my existing history and start over.

    Infinite means infinite, not capped at 999999 entries (which could easily be reached some day). Apparently though the extension developer here decided that his users were too stupid to understand the idea of "storing more history = more resources needed" and decided to remove the only thing that made his extension worthwhile in the first place, replacing it with instructions to change about:config entries that you could mess with yourself without having it installed anyway.

    Unless the "disable places expiration" option is returned, this extension is pointless and you shouldn't even bother installing it. It's a shame that for whatever reason the developer decided that people weren't smart enough to use his add-on properly. That's how everything useful dies.

    I'm just lucky I caught the change in the "updated" version of this extension before Firefox managed to wipe my history out. I've gone back to an old version until this issue is fixed. Shame on you for making this change so suddenly. What if somebody updated that already had more than 999999 entries in their history? You'd be wiping out the record of their digital life.

    If you're going to put things under a big "scary options for experts" heading, then let those people actually pick the options that they want. Return the option to disable history expiration entirely.

    Edit: If the response is true, then what does the (now disabled) preference "extensions.bonardonet.expire-history-by-days.disable_expiration" do?

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    First: the disable expiration checkbox was just setting the pref to 999999, so nothing changes. Second, Webextensions cannot set prefs anymore, so that's why it's suggested to do that manually.
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