Clear History and Cache Older Than a Certain Amount of Time or Date

[Daniel909]

Hi

In Firefox Mobile and Firefox it would be useful to clear history and cache of websites visited that is older than a certain amount of time or before a specific date. For example, clear data that is older the 3 months, or older 6 months, or older than 14.04.22. At the moment you can only clear recent data or everything.

This would allow you to free space used up by cached files on websites that you are not visiting frequently or recently. This is particularly handy if your mobile device does not have much free storage, but you still want to benefit from reduced download time of having cached files from websites you visit regularly or websites you have visited recently and will look at again soon but will not likely visit again in the long term.

Thank you for upvoting this idea!

[AnFire]

@Jonis the planned down the line?

[nonlosao]

It would be such an awesome feature to have! Why is my only option to automatically delete all data when I close Firefox  That way I basically always start with a fresh session, and it's super painful
Deleting history (cache, cookies, etc) older than a certain date makes the browser still usable but at the same time ensures that all stale data gets deleted.

I've been looking for a way to achieve this, but there's no extension that can do it. I even thought about writing one myself, but the apis don't seem to allow it. You can only remove data since a certain time, but not until. 😞 Why is that?

[harpia]

I hate having to trust my browsing history to another third-party extension, just so it can do basic cleanups that Firefox itself should be doing! 😠

[AnFire]

I share the comments of everyone above: this is a pretty important privacy feature and it is not reasonable to have to trust a third-party extension with this data, especially for something so simply.

It's now been over three years and there are tons of comments on this. @Jon is there a plan to implement this?

[brixter]

Following up on this idea. This is my most requested idea for Firefox Android.

[Jon]

@AnFire @brixter (and others following along) - let me surface it to the team and see if there are any updates. 

[AnFire]

Much appreciated @Jon !