Suffrin' Safari

May 20, 2006 8:41 PM

Safari is not retaining any history older than a day. This is a problem because it 'forgets' long URLs to auto-complete. How do I make it remember again?

This is on OS X 10.3.9 (Panther). I don't see anything in the Preferences that I can change that influences this. I'm stumped, and I feel like a power loser. Did I accidentally set some invisible setting? Help me, MetaFiltarians!

posted by fleacircus to computers & internet (5 comments total)

In the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitHistoryItemLimit N

N is the max number of pages you want to keep. Deafaults to 1000.
posted by nathan_teske at 8:54 PM on May 20, 2006

Blah. Defaults to 100
posted by nathan_teske at 8:56 PM on May 20, 2006

I swear it used to remember more. I wonder if an update clobbered it.
posted by fleacircus at 9:02 PM on May 20, 2006

This just happened to me, too -- right after a force quit and a reboot, though.

Weirdly it autocompletes some URLs that I haven't been to in about 5 years, but has trouble with the recent ones.
posted by litlnemo at 3:22 AM on May 21, 2006

Yeah litlnemo, I've noticed it's getting some from like 2 weeks ago but not from 2 days ago. I was doing a bunch of JavaScript testing that demanded a few force-quits, perhaps that did it.

It seems to be working better now. Thanks, nathan_teske.
posted by fleacircus at 8:20 AM on May 21, 2006