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Limit to Backspace (go back) history

lovelyday_786
lovelyday_786
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Is there any way to set limit for go back history? For each website, I can go back up to 50 pages, which I believe might be consuming the memory too. Does anyone know how to set it to 5 or 10 instead.

Is there any way to set limit for go back history? For each website, I can go back up to 50 pages, which I believe might be consuming the memory too. Does anyone know how to set it to 5 or 10 instead.

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McCoy
McCoy
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Hello lovelyday_786,

Would you try this please :

Type in the address bar about:config and press Enter (promise to be careful, if asked)

Type in the search bar and look for the preference :

browser.sessionhistory.max_entries

And set the value to one that's lower than 50 (= default).

Then close and restart firefox.


Maybe you'd also like to take a look at this article :

https://www.davidtan.org/tips-reduce-firefox-memory-cache-usage/

lovelyday_786
lovelyday_786 Question owner
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Current value at my machine is at 10 but still Browser keeps the records of 50 backspace (go back) history.

Restarted the Firefox and Computer both but no effect.