How to setup spotlight to ignore safari history item. I just want bookmarks
Anybody know how to setup Spotlight so that when I do a search, it just finds bookmarks? I don't want all of the history items.
Thanks to all who answer.
Mark
You can check if you have a user.js file in the profile folder to initialize some prefs each time you start Firefox.
The user.js file is only present if you or other software has created it, so normally it wouldn't be there.<br />
You can check its content with a plain text editor if the file is there and you didn't create this file yourself.
The user.js file is read each time you start Firefox and initializes preferences to the value specified in this file, so preferences set via user.js can only be changed temporarily for the current session.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
You can do a search for delta search pref on the <b>about:config</b> page and reset related user set (bold) prefs via the right-click context menu to the default value.
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