Firefox browser/ Thunderbird Email/ Mozilla Suite

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Dina Lerret" <redina at s...> wrote:
> Steve said:
> 
> > Could you translate this into English '...history browsing didn't
> > stall it'?



> I had altered my browser history months ago to retain up to 999 days
> (atthe time, the program didn't like anything greater).
> 
> When I try to load up my history, Firefox becomes unresponsive for
> *minutes* as it *struggles* to load up the data. Internet Explorer 
> is useful in that the history loads up in seconds and I can access 
> it immediately.
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> Aye, Mozilla is great there.
> 
> Dina


bboyminn:

I'll show you why Mozilla/Foxfire is unresponsive.

First, I suggest you search you computer for

history.*

That should bring up the Mozilla/Foxfire History files which are 

history.dat

and

history.mab

I have my computer set to remember 10 days history and the HISTORY.DAT
files is 2Mb. (2,000,000)

Expanding that to your computer with 999 days, and it would imply that
you History file is 199Mb. [I'm really curious, just how big this file
is.] That is ONE HUGE FILE, and is probably using a tremendous amount
of resources. And easily explains why Foxfire stalls while it tries to
load that huge file. In addition, it is probably consuming so much of
your computer's resources that it is contributing to it's instability. 

I suggest you limit it to 365 days or less, and try to use Bookmarks
or a separate link list for your fan fictions. 

Since you use Internet Explorer less often, it's likely that it's
history list is much much smaller that Mozilla/Foxfire's. You might
try searching to the file named...

History.IE5

... or something close to that, to compare the size. I'm not 100% sure
that's the right file but it came up in my search.

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn (was bboy_mn)