Perhaps this is not the best place to ask, however, I have not had any luck finding answers elsewhere and I know the someone here knows the answer

In a nutshell, I am looking to purge information which I do not want retained (for privacy reasons) from the various database files used by Firefox. Using the available preference settings I have configured Firefox to clear everything on quit except for:

Saved Passwords
Site Preferences
Browsing History

I have no concern with the first two categories. It is the third one which I wish to fine tune beyond what I can do within the Firefox app. I wish to keep those sites which I have typed in so that they can be accessed by the Old Location Bar add-in - so that when I enter "li" in the address bar I am directed to linuxquestions.org. However, I do not want the data stored which allows Firefox to display previously visited links in a different color (and probably more data as I dig further).

So my plan would be to build some scripts to remove the offending data from the applicable sqlite databases (places.sqlite in the case of browsing history) by brute force. As mozilla.org does not expect users to do this they do not seem to have any documentation readily available describing the layout and use of the databases behind Firefox.

So my question is... can someone point me to a source of the documentation I am seeking?

TIA,

Ken

Did you try asking this question to the Firefox mailing lists ?

Thanks anishakaul, I will give that a try.

Ken

Ken

be sure to describe your problem as short as possible (and in points rather than in paragraphs), coz. mailing list people are busy people , they may tend to skip a long post !

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With no HTML tags too.

Thanks again anishakaul. I have fired off a 3 line request to the list. I will see what I get back.

Ken

Now i wonder will they be able to understand the problem in 3 lines ?? Isn't that too short !

Good luck

And your query has been answered here ! Great
http://groups.google.com/group/mozil...bbbecd05dc0e7#

More information than I need to know!

Ken

Great to see to see you happy

And do bother to post your solution here, It may help someone else !

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You can mark the thread SOLVED if you think you have got an answer to your problem through the Thread tools menu at the top of this page !

It looks like this will take some effort. If/when I get something working I will share. As to the mailing list... it took me 4 tries to get unsubscribed (as I was getting a lot of mail from the list). And I am now on at least one spammer's list At least I did not use a critical email address.

Ken

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