Bookmarks versus History seems confused
Firefox since version 3 seems to treat History and Bookmarks as more or less identical lists. They are not, at least not for me, and probably not for most people.
For example, when you hit 'Show All History', you get a popup/dialog window with the History, PLUS all your Bookmarks. I deliberately keep History and Bookmarks separate, and it makes no sense at all to me that Firefox seems determined to take that away from me.
Additionally, the options available to organize History are much more limited than what used to be available.
Chosen solution
If you want to see history by itself, you can still do that in the sidebar. With a Mac, use Cmd-Shift-H to open it. With Windows, use Ctrl-H.
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Starting with the Firefox 3 version, Firefox stores bookmarks and browsing history in the same file - places.sqlite.
With all due respect to the-edmeister, what on earth does that have to do with anything?
My complaint was that when I pull up the History, I get History, Bookmarks, and some other weird stuff all smushed together. Unless your point is that Firefox has no way of separating them back out again (which is clearly false), I have no idea what your point is.
The point is that Firefox 3+ versions use a combined bookmarks and history data storage file, along with the user interface showing both types of data in the same window, the Library window. The three main category's in the Library window are History, Tags, and Bookmarks.
Firefox 2 and earlier version used a separate bookmarks.html file and history.dat file for storing bookmarks and history. The user interface was separate, too. Bookmarks Manager window and the History Sidebar.
Chosen Solution
If you want to see history by itself, you can still do that in the sidebar. With a Mac, use Cmd-Shift-H to open it. With Windows, use Ctrl-H.
Thanks, finitarry. That gives me what I was trying to get.
Is there some way to get that without having to remember the keypad 'shortcut'?
To the-edmeister :
My point is I really don't care how Firefox stores data internally. I doubt many people do.
When I want to look at my History, I want to see my History, without having to deal with three or four other large data sets that I already know don't have anything in them I want. That the popup containing all that goop is poorly thought out and clumsy is just icing on the cake.
You can open the sidebar from the View menu. View > Sidebar > History
Thanks again, finitarry.
Now all I have to do is remember to use that entry, and ignore the History pull-down menu.
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