[gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[Jorge Almeida]

When I access Wikipedia's main page, I see a "Search" form which
displays (in Firefox) the _whole_ history of my past searches. The thing
appears to intend to go on forever and ever. Anyone knows where such
information is kept? I assume it's kept localy, because I tried with
Konqueror and there wasn't anything there. I checked that there are no
Wikipedia cookies in Firefox...

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 22:30, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> When I access Wikipedia's main page, I see a "Search" form which
> displays (in Firefox) the _whole_ history of my past searches. The thing
> appears to intend to go on forever and ever. Anyone knows where such
> information is kept? I assume it's kept localy, because I tried with
> Konqueror and there wasn't anything there. I checked that there are no
> Wikipedia cookies in Firefox...
>
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> Jorge Almeida

This is just Firefox saving anything you enter into a form on a web page.

You can clear these entries or disable it entirely by going to:

Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Saved Forms

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[Jorge Almeida]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
>
> This is just Firefox saving anything you enter into a form on a web page.
>
> You can clear these entries or disable it entirely by going to:
>
> Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Saved Forms
>
>
OK, thank you. 
Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since
some forms I might want to keep. Do you know where the information is
kept? I would think it should be the file
~/.mozilla/firefox/crlyhjhn.default/formhistory.dat
but I searched for some words appearing in the Wikipedia search field
and I didn't find them in the file...
A low-level editing would be enough, even if Firefox doesn't provide an
interface to history editing.

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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[Remy Blank]

Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since
> some forms I might want to keep.

You can remove an entry by highlighting it and pressing "Shfit-Delete".
Not user-friendly, but still quite useful.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[Jorge Almeida]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Remy Blank wrote:

> Jorge Almeida wrote:
>> Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since
>> some forms I might want to keep.
>
> You can remove an entry by highlighting it and pressing "Shfit-Delete".
Thanks.
> Not user-friendly, but still quite useful.
Not bad, as non-CLI tricks go.
>

Jorge
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[Robert Persson]

On Sun, 2006-24-09 at 14:18 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since
> some forms I might want to keep. 

There's a firefox extension for doing just that - saving half-edited
forms and whatnot. Can't remember what it's called off the top of my
head.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[Dotan Cohen]

On 25/09/06, Robert Persson <ireneshusband@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-24-09 at 14:18 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> > Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since
> > some forms I might want to keep.
>
> There's a firefox extension for doing just that - saving half-edited
> forms and whatnot. Can't remember what it's called off the top of my
> head.
>

It's called Firefox2- the next version of firefox will do this automatically.

Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
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