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Daily Tricks 4. Eternal History
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After using Safari for quite some time, it will be normal for us to have visit many sites and pages. All of those are tracked and saved in our history.
Perhaps after a year or more, we will forget some of useful sites and want to find it. At that time, we can use our history to trackback.
If you are using Firefox as web browser, you can have your eternal history by following these steps:
- Open Firefox and go to its Preferences
- Under Preferences Pane, choose Privacy Section
- Take a look at the first check box labelled "Keep my history for at least … days". You can fill any large numbers here, e.g. 99999.
- And your history files will remain there for that written days, practically eternal
On the other hand, if you want to make your history only lasts for 1 day, you can simply change the number to 1.
For Safari, the setting is under Safari Menubar → Preferences → General Section.
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4 Comments
Dominic
And your Firefox startup time will be eternal, too. great 'tip'! :P
Josso
As Dominic says, you really have to be careful with this. If you set it too high (I find a month too high) your Firefox (and maybe Safari, too?) startup times will be really long. When you hover over your "History"-menu Firefox will freeze a few seconds because it have to check all of your visited sites. :(
Dominic
Yeah, and if someone is on your computer they can see all your visited prOn sites - of lifetime o_O think about it^^
Josso
Lol... That's what you use "Private Mode" for. Even Firefox has it now. :p
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