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Because of the complexity of the storage format used in history.dat | Because of the complexity of the storage format (called Mork) used in "history.dat", editing this file manually is not recommended. Changes can be made through the [[History Sidebar]]. | ||
==Moving== | ==Moving== |
Revision as of 14:04, 25 July 2006
history.dat stores the browsing history: the record of all recently-visited pages. It should not to be confused with session history which controls the Back and Forward buttons, or with download history which stores details of files saved to the hard drive or opened with external programs. The History Sidebar provides an interface to view and edit this file.
Editing
Because of the complexity of the storage format (called Mork) used in "history.dat", editing this file manually is not recommended. Changes can be made through the History Sidebar.
Moving
This file can be moved to a different profile without any extra effort.
Deleting
Deleting history.dat will delete your browsing history. A new file containing browsing history will be created on startup or when it is first needed.
Related bugs
- Bug 193236 - History Window Excruciatingly Slow
- Bug 223476 - large history makes Firefox painfully slow in several ways
- Bug 241438 - please make history.dat easier to parse (i.e., not Mork)
- Bug 315020 - Files can not be saved when history.dat is read only
- Bug 319004 - CVE-2005-4134 overlong document.title setting can corrupt history data, causing non-responsive temporary hang (crash?) on subsequent startups