[olug] completely disabling history in firefox

[Thom Harrison]

Sorry that's a +i and the XXXXXX is the goofy directory name in the path.

chattr +i ~/.mozilla/firefox/XXXXXX/history.dat

Thom

Thom Harrison wrote:
> 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.
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> 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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