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 Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:33 am Post subject: Firefox will not clear history (solved) |
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I've got firefox version 3.5.3 and have set it to clear my entire history after I close it.
Normally when I close off firefox it will do that, but yesterday night instead of closing firefox and then shutting down the machine, I left it open. Now I've done this quite a few times and there wasn't any issues with it (firefox not clearing history).
I've open up firefox today and the site's I've visited is still listed in the address bar. I've manually cleared the history (in firefox's option panel), used the latest version of ccleaner and it's still exist!
Another method I've tried (read online) is to just highlight the history and press shift delete, it deletes, but after a restart of firefox the sites I've visited is still listed.
I know there is a awesome bar where you type in a web address from your bookmarks it will show it to you, but that's not the case as I've got a add on for it and typing other address from the bookmarks not related to the address that won't clear, will not show up.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:44 am Post subject: |
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| Same thing happens with me, it used to clear everything upon close, but now I open it up and it will have me logged in to gmail and everything.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:54 am Post subject: |
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I have an idea.
1. uninstall firefox and switch to google chrome
and 2. use ccleaner to clean your history.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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If it really is that big of a deal to clear your history...
Uninstall and reinstall Firefox.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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k dude first of all firfox uses tons of memory and google chrome is waaay better and faster in my opinion. do you see google chrome causing these browsing history issues?? |
In other people's opinion, they like FF better. Now stfu and gtfo if you can't help.
@OP: Tools>options>privacy>history Try setting it to "never remember history", or custom setting - permanent private browsing mode.
You can also clear your history manually (not from the history panel). Try Tools>Clear Private Data/Recent History and choose the stuff you want to clear.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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| (dib1500) wrote: | | Talix wrote: | | (dib1500) wrote: | I have an idea.
1. uninstall firefox and switch to google chrome
and 2. use ccleaner to clean your history. |
Uh, he already used ccleaner?
He also like firefox because it's better? Seriously, you're not helping at all, you're just being an idiot.
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Try going in and out of private browsing, or deleting your firefox profile. |
k dude first of all firfox uses tons of memory and google chrome is waaay better and faster in my opinion. do you see google chrome causing these browsing history issues?? |
lolwut
Chrome uses far more memory than Firefox, often on the order of 2* what Firefox does. Almost everyone, when looking at RAM usage, fail to add up the memory usage from each chrome.exe process, assuming that the first process they see represents the entire running program. The GUI, each tab, plugin, addon, etc, has it's own process to improve stability.
Arguing over browsers isn't helping the OP any.
@OP: Go to %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*******.username and find "places.sqlite". This file contains your bookmarks, favorite icons, input history, keywords, and browsing history; basically all non-temporary history.
If deleted, your history will be destroyed but your bookmarks/etc will attempt to rebuild themselves from the latest backup found in the appropriately named bookmarkbackups folder found in the same location. Since it would seem that the file may be corrupted, I'd suggest deleting it.
Note: ********.username is named from 8 random characters + each profile username you may have. By default it's ********.default, but if you're using a different profile, of course, choose the appropriate folder.
EDIT: Why does every thread involving any problem with any browser ever devolve into retarded flame wars over which browser is best? It ought to be a rule not to argue over browsers since it's always the same useless shit every time.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Zarr wrote: | | Chrome uses far more memory than Firefox, often on the order of 2* what Firefox does. Almost everyone, when looking at RAM usage, fail to add up the memory usage from each chrome.exe process, assuming that the first process they see represents the entire running program. The GUI, each tab, plugin, addon, etc, has it's own process to improve stability. |
I've looked over this myself, and Chrome uses less memory on average. Also, due to the nature of the program it scales far better than Firefox as each tab gets its own dedicated process, that means you don't have to worry about lock contention and you can separate the work over multiple CPU cores.
The only time this becomes a problem is when you've got something like 20 tabs open; if that's the case you should really consider organizing your shit.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| (dib1500) wrote: | I have an idea.
1. uninstall firefox and switch to google chrome
and 2. use ccleaner to clean your history. |
I've tried Google Chrome for a few days and uninstall it due its dumb down design. Also I've already uses CCleaner if you haven't read my post properly.
| elpacco wrote: | If it really is that big of a deal to clear your history...
Uninstall and reinstall Firefox. |
This is how identity theft starts, maybe you should learn how to keep your foot print smaller while browsing the web!
And... tried to just uninstall/reinstall and it does not work.
| Talix wrote: | | Try going in and out of private browsing, or deleting your firefox profile. |
Tried going in/out of private browsing. The whole entire firefox history is cleared and there's nothing in it, but in the address drop down bar the 4 sites still exist.
| ~Freelancer~ wrote: | Tools>options>privacy>history Try setting it to "never remember history", or custom setting - permanent private browsing mode.
You can also clear your history manually (not from the history panel). Try Tools>Clear Private Data/Recent History and choose the stuff you want to clear. |
There is a setting in firefox control panel under privacy tabs
label: When using the location bar, suggest
and the 4 options are, history and bookmarks, history, bookmarks or nothing.
When a certain setting is selected (bookmarks) when you type in a key word in the address bar a bunch of bookmark sites contain that word will show up.
Setting this to nothing won't show anything and that's not how I want it to behave as I visit lots of sites therefore I need to keep a history of the sites I currently just have visited.
I've also have firefox to clear everything immediately after closing off firefox and that does not help.
| Zarr wrote: | | Go to %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*******.username and find "places.sqlite". This file contains your bookmarks, favorite icons, input history, keywords, and browsing history; basically all non-temporary history. |
did a search on "places.sqlite" and this does not exist in my profile.
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I've looked over this myself, and Chrome uses less memory on average. Also, due to the nature of the program it scales far better than Firefox as each tab gets its own dedicated process, that means you don't have to worry about lock contention and you can separate the work over multiple CPU cores.
The only time this becomes a problem is when you've got something like 20 tabs open; if that's the case you should really consider organizing your shit. |
Almost all browsers these days have tabs in its own process so if one tab gets corrupted it won't bring down the whole browser.
Also I won't have like 20 tabs open at once, the most for me is like 6-8 the most.
Problem solved!
1. Exported bookmarks to a safe location
2. Used Revo uninstaller to uninstall Firefox along with its registry entries.
3. Manually deleted additional entries/folders that wasn't deleted in the first place.
4. Downloaded firefox again from internet
5. Install Firefox
6. Import bookmarks, adjust to personal settings, and install extensions.
History will show the sites I've currently visited, closing off firefox (auto-delete) and re-launching FF won't show the history that was already deleted.
FireFox is now working properly.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| kls85 wrote: | Almost all browsers these days have tabs in its own process so if one tab gets corrupted it won't bring down the whole browser.
Also I won't have like 20 tabs open at once, the most for me is like 6-8 the most. |
... what? Maybe each tab might render its own thread, but each tab in it's own process is a unique feature in Chrome.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| Wahoa wrote: | | ... what? Maybe each tab might render its own thread, but each tab in it's own process is a unique feature in Chrome. |
Not really unique actually. IE had this first and they devised a special algorithm where sometimes there's a process used, sometimes there are more than one process used. I personally think IE's tab system is better than Chrome's since it doesn't necessarily gives one process to one tab.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:36 am Post subject: |
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If you have bookmarked pages, they will still show up in the drop down menu until you delete the bookjoe.
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kls85
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| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:38 am Post subject: |
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| Localhost wrote: | | If you have bookmarked pages, they will still show up in the drop down menu until you delete the bookjoe. |
There is a option in FF to hide bookmarked pages from being displayed in the drop-down address bar.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| TanLiHao wrote: | | Wahoa wrote: | | ... what? Maybe each tab might render its own thread, but each tab in it's own process is a unique feature in Chrome. |
Not really unique actually. IE had this first and they devised a special algorithm where sometimes there's a process used, sometimes there are more than one process used. I personally think IE's tab system is better than Chrome's since it doesn't necessarily gives one process to one tab. |
There's one of those [independent?] Mozilla teams working on this for Firefox as well.
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