[olug] completely disabling history in firefox

[Thom Harrison]

Have you tried "chattr -i ~/.mozilla/firefox/history.dat"  ?
That would make it immutable.  I don't know if anything will break but...

Thom

I liked the following quote so much I stole it...

The computer said to install Windows 98/NT/2000 or better...
So I installed Linux.


Kris Gainsforth wrote:
> That doesn't work either.  I tried that, even changing ownership to
> root:root. No luck.
> 
> On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 22:18, Sean Edwards wrote:
> 
>>You could create a soft link to /dev/null.  Your
>>mileage may vary:
>>
>>ln -s ~/.mozilla/firefox/history.dat /dev/null
>>
>>-=Sean Edwards=-
>>cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
>>
>>--- Kris Gainsforth <krisguy at alltel.net> wrote:
>>
>>>I'm trying to turn off that annoying little dropdown
>>>box from the URL
>>>bar in Firefox on SuSE 9.1 Pro.  I try to chmod the
>>>history.dat file in
>>>my .mozilla/firefox folder, but when I run Firefox,
>>>it automatically
>>>changes permissions from 444 to 644.  Does anyone
>>>have a clue about what
>>>to do about this?
>>>
>>>BTW, the Firefox was installed from SuSE's rpm off
>>>their ftp site.
>>>
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