So what is the use of this library manager? Well, among other things this tool has a reasonably powerful search function built in (see the textbox near the top?). Smart trimming with the Firefox library manager For our purposes, you can start it up either by hitting ‘Shift-Ctrl-H‘ or going to ‘History > Show All History‘. This is a nifty tool shipped with Firefox 3 that lets you manage your browsing history and your bookmarks in a single, powerful interface. Fortunately Firefox 3 also comes packaged with a secret weapon - the awesome Firefox 3 library manager. This is a sticky problem of course, and how well you can do this depends on your own surfing habits.
So the next question is naturally : how do we isolate the parts of our history log that we don’t need? In other words, we can ditch some of those history without any noticeable penalty. You should be realizing by now that unless you are a very peculiar and hardcore user, there are at least SOME of all that junk that you will never need nor want to appear on your awesome bar. This includes all your google searches, all your video searches, every image you open in your google image searches and every last email you ever read. However, the key thing to realize when trimming your history log is that Firefox chronicles EVERY nook and cranny of the web you so much as plant a toe on. In other words, clearing your history log means your awesome bar is gonna be pretty helpless for awhile.
Every time you type a url into the bar Firefox searches your history to come up with a list of suggestions you can pick. One of the most useful and compelling reason to always keep a reasonable amount of history logged is because it powers your awesome bar. As a follow up to my previous post about how you can significantly speed up Firefox 3 by clearing your history log, here are some tips and tricks for people who, like me, do not want to vanquish their entire history log in one fell swoop.
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