Mozilla History

Hi All,

I am using Mozilla 1.0.2 (for stability reasons, plus it does everything that I need it to do). But I am having a problem with the history (this same problem occurs in Netscape 7.02 as well). Whenever I open Mozilla 1.0.2, and let's say I go to www.aol.com, and then close mozilla and open it again, the www.aol.com address that I typed in does not appear in the drop down list. It just says nothing available. I know that if I do this in later versions of mozilla it works fine.

By the way I have it set to remember my history for 30 days, so I know this isn't the problem. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Hi Kevin,

Just FYI:
The Location Bar drop down list only shows locations YOU have typed in the location toolbar; it is different from the browser's "global history" list, which keeps track of all of the web pages you've visited. It has nothing to do with the History Preferences, or the history.dat file which is stored in your salted folder. So, as you can see, the setting for the # of days to remember History, does not apply to the Location Bar.

Check these settings:
Edit | Preferences | Navigator | Smart Browsing
Ensure that Location Bar autocomplete is enabled

You might consider updating Mozilla with 1.5 when it is released next week, or 1.4.1, although I don't have a Release date yet. The Resource Leak has been addressed in both of these Releases, if that's why you are using 1.02, which BTW is a year old now. I can tell you that 1.5b and 1.5RC1 are quite stable.

Ramona

 

Hi Ramona,

The resource leak is part of the reason I am using Mozilla 1.0.2. I also am using it because I read somewhere in a forum that Mozilla 1.0 was the most stable. And that is has evolved to 1.0.2 to fix security issues. I believe that the resource leak alone proves that 1.4 is not stable.

I have checked my preferences and enable internet keywords is checked.

All that I am saying is that in Internet Explorer I can go to my home page... www.excite.com and then if I typed in www.aol.com and go there and then close mozilla. Then I re-open it and i click the down arrow by the address bar and the www.aol.com address appears there.

I also know this feature works in later versions of Mozilla.

I won't use Mozilla 1.4 for I do not want to deal with the resource leak problem. You have no clue when version 1.4.1 will come out or 1.5? What about 1.3.1 is that version stable?

 

Hi Kevin,

Mozilla 1.4.1 should be out within the next week. Mozilla 1.5 is scheduled for October 1, and 1.5 RC2 was released yesterday.

In Preferences you should also enable Location Bar Autocomplete. I use 1.5b, so assume that the Preference is there in 1.0.2. This may not fix your problem, but worth a try. It is a bug in NS 7.02 and Mozilla 1.0.2, but has been addressed in later Releases. To the best of my knowledge there is no workaround, other than to upgrade.

Don't regress to 1.3.1, wait and upgrade to either 1.4.1 or 1.5 Final Release.

Ramona