Option to store history forever

[kmarkina]

kmarkina last edited by

You never know what you'll need to return to and use again. With search systems always showing different results, it becomes impossible to find exact page you need. Having an option to store opera browser history forever (so it's not mixed with other stuff you search/do in separate browsers that is stored if you're logged into a history saving account) would be a lifesaver and a useful tool for life organization.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @kmarkina last edited by

@kmarkina How big is your hard drive? Literal forever is of course impossible, as it would require infinite storage. Unless you actually choose which sites you want it to remember, which is known as bookmarks.

Try to indicate what you want it to remember about the page - of course URL so you can find it again and probably title and date/time, but what else? Certain key words perhaps, since a title like "main page" or "inventory" isn't all tat helpful. How much space will it take per page? Multiply by pages per day and days per month to see where that gets you.

Not saying some degree of improvement isn't possible, but let's try to be realistic about our expectations.

[kmarkina]

kmarkina @sgunhouse last edited by

@sgunhouse It is okay without a key words as you can search by what led to the page, confirm by date. URL, title, date/time, is not so much weight. We don’t live that long for these 3 things to take up significant space.

It would be great if it were possible to export chunks of archived history to an external hard drive, in the case it does become too much.

It doesn’t have to be default, for people who surf a lot of pages without a reason nor care to find them again, it would indeed turn into inconvenience and auto-cleaning would need to be kept.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @kmarkina last edited by

@kmarkina Chromium has a 90 days limit for the itens that will be displayed in History. Enabling sync may help keeping the data for a longer period.

[kmarkina]

kmarkina @leocg last edited by

@leocg thank you! what do you mean by sync?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @kmarkina last edited by

@kmarkina Enabling synchronization in Opera.

[kmarkina]

kmarkina @leocg last edited by

@leocg thank you!
However, just extending the period doesn’t solve the issue of having to find long ago visited pages.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @kmarkina last edited by

@kmarkina Your request is about keeping the history forever. That is kind of impossible, but sync seems to extend the default period.

[kmarkina]

kmarkina @leocg last edited by

@leocg I don’t see it as impossible. Firefox does it

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @kmarkina last edited by

@kmarkina Firefox isn't based on Chromium. Perhaps there's an easy switch to change from what Chrome does, but on a number of other issues Opera is forced to follow whatever Chrome does because they don't want to maintain a separate branch of the Chromium code. If it's just a simple number somewhere they could, but if they test it multiple places it becomes harder.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @kmarkina last edited by

@kmarkina Impossible it isn't but, for sure, it can be problematic and inconvenient. Image how long it would take to load the history page if you had, let's say, three years of history.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @kmarkina last edited by

@kmarkina You can try opening the History file with DB Browser or any other SQL Lite editor and see if you still can find old entries there.

[kmarkina]

kmarkina @leocg last edited by

@leocg it doesn’t have to be loaded at once. It can load by years/months if scrolling through, or show specific matches if using search