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Re:Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free i... by Naac on Sunday November 10, 2019 @01:18PM (#21499281)
I also had the same desire as you to keep my firefox history for as long as possible. It's especially great for auto-completion of previously visited websites.

My places.sqlite file is several years old and has moved across several machines, it is 47MB.

I can't say I've experienced the same lag you're describing. At least using the firefox url bar ( where auto-completions show up ) I found it to be pretty quick. The firefox history management window "feels" a little old ( read: 90s ), but is functional for the times I've had to search for a site I visited 5 years ago and vaguely remembered the name.

What specific features would you want to see from firefox's history management window.

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Re:Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free i... by catalogia on Sunday November 10, 2019 @01:20PM (#21499294)
Make a copy of your profile (to preserve your history) then in Firefox's Show All History window, search for a site that has thousands of visits, select them all, then press delete. Firefox will start burning a few CPU cores and lock up for a long time, every time.
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Re:Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free i... by Naac on Sunday November 10, 2019 @01:24PM (#21499319)
That might very well be performing poorly. But I interpreted the OP to talk about usability of viewing all the previous history. My goal is to never delete my firefox "sites visited" history so I can refer to it back later. So naturally I've never experienced the problem you're describing.
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Re:Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free i... by techwolf on Sunday November 10, 2019 @02:13PM (#21499589)
My places.sqlite is 400MB, and just opening the history viewer is enough to cause Firefox to hang for several seconds. It's really not designed to store history forever; I even had to change places.history.expiration.max_pages and places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages in about:config to prevent it from deleting old entries.
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Re:Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free i... by 2ion on Sunday November 10, 2019 @02:51PM (#21499785)
No I meant deleting items takes a very long time, like the current grand parent.

Search is quick, in Ctrl+H and the URL bar suggestions are instantaneous. No complaints there.

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