Is there a way to set up Firefox in a way that it absolutely never removes any items from its history (automatically)?
In the past maybe there were a 'keep all history items', then you could set it from menu to a big integer like 999999999 in days.
Since, first unnoticed, this setting was gone, I currently resolved to backing up places.sqlite (on win, in %Appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<some-profilename>\places.sqlite).
Let's say I won't upgrade without checking that my backup method still works:
How can one today set Firefox v22 to keep all history items?
I've already set these values in about:config.
places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages;104858
places.history.expiration.transient_optimal_database_size;85534800
still I have bookmarks older than the oldest history item in the database; although I cannot recall when I set these settings!
So is this sufficient? Are these good values? Are there other or better ways to do this (eg. an addon).
Best Answer
There is now a proper solution (Firefox v40):
places.history.expiration.max_pageswill override the 'optimal database size' calculations, so setting it to a large positive value should get the desired effect.See this answer.