Swabby [Releases/Support]

[Moonchild]

Swabby is a fork of PlacesCleaner for Pale Moon and Basilisk.
This was initially forked as "Places Maintenance" but I did not realise it conflicted with a Firefox extension of the same name, so re-branded it to "Swabby"

https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/swabby/

If you installed the previous one, please uninstall it and install Swabby. It will not "upgrade" as I re-did it from scratch to prevent confusion in internal naming schemes and potential chrome registration conflicts.

[ron_1]

I went to the repo to create a new pull request for Swabby, but the "New Pull Request" button isn't working. Is it because I just created a new account on the repo?

[Moonchild]

Why did you want to make a PR first thing? What's wrong?
As for the repo... should be possible to make a PR if you verified your account. Did you fork the repo first?

[ron_1]

Why did you want to make a PR first thing? What's wrong?

This:

ron_1 wrote:
is the status bar icon movable? I tried the usual way (open Customize Toolbar, and tried to drag the icon) but it didn't move. If it's not movable, is there anyway it can be made movable (feature request)?

Moonchild wrote:
I'm not sure if it's movable as it's not a standard status bar item from my understanding. I can see if I can make it movable but not sure. please open an issue on the repo so I can investigate.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=26568#p212685

As for the repo... should be possible to make a PR if you verified your account. Did you fork the repo first?

I did verify the account (otherwise I wouldn't have been logged in, right?); don't understand what you mean by forking the repo first.

[Moonchild]

issue = issue, not a pull request.
Pull request means you have code you want to merge. To do that you'd have to fork the repo into your account first, then make code changes and then create a pull request to request that those code changes be incorporated in the original repo.

[ron_1]

issue = issue, not a pull request.

Ah, thanks. I'm new to this as you can see. "Issue" made. Thanks again.

[Moonchild]

Swabby updated to v1.1.1

This fixes use on Basilisk that would error out previously because of a defunct notification bug check.

[Octopuss]

I am a little confused. This lets you clear history in a more refined way (date, visit count...), but without being able to specify what kind of data will be cleaned, as opposed to the clear history dialogue?

[Moonchild]

without being able to specify what kind of data will be cleaned

History will be cleared.

as opposed to the clear history dialogue?

which dialog are you talking about?

[New Tobin Paradigm]

My guess is the sanitize dialog.

[Moonchild]

The extension only deals with "Browsing and download history" which is by far the biggest contributor to the places database size.

Actually, what it does is the following:

1. The extension first cleans up the places table (master table with history) according to the parameters set. This is "browsing and download history" or rather all recorded visits. It will skip bookmarked sites from being removed from that table.
2. It will then check the form input history against the places table and cleans up any form history entries that don't have an associated history or bookmarked site anymore (associations removed).
3. It will then do the same with favicon entries.
4. As a bonus it will also clean up google toolbar thumbnails that that toolbar stores in the places database as blobs.

So in short it will remove sites according to your settings and then clean up additional resources from the places database that, as a result, no longer have any associations to known sites.

[Octopuss]

My guess is the sanitize dialog.

The "clear recent history" under History dropdown menu. I guess that's the same thing.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Yes.