Hi! Ed,

In a message to All you wrote:

 EV> Does Firefox and Internet Explorer share the same Directory
 EV> to store History?

Although I don't use IE at all any longer, I would have to say 'no'. 
Having different development teams, and different roots have a bearing on
what we're seeing these days.

 EV> Back in 1996 when I used Netscape 2.0 (?) I have looked through the
 EV> Bookmark file and noticed it was One File whereas IE 3.0 Favorites
 EV> used seperate Space for each Favorite, and taking up a lot more HDD
 EV> space for the same amount of URL's I saved as Bookmarks.

It still seems to be: one URL == one cluster (file), at least with Barb's
XP (IE 8.xx?).  FF keeps all your Favorites as bookmarks in a single file
(which are large IAC).

 EV> I don't remember looking at Netscape History on the HDD way back
 EV> then and don't know if Firefox has changed the way it stores it's
 EV> information than what Netscape did.

It would have changed, I'm sure.  These days FF is using Java-type bookmark
files (.json extension), I think.  FF also uses a bunch of SQL data files
(.sqlite extension) for all manner of things to remember.  These are quite
recent changes.

 EV> I know where Firefox's Profile file is but now I will have to take
 EV> a Look See at how IE does it on my computers.

That's one of the few things I make sure to include in backups.  That and
Barb's Thunderbird profile directory, and also for my U'u TB profile. 
(Sure, new/re-created installations use a different profile pseudo-root but
the backups can be grafted in fairly easily.)

 EV> If IE has a seperatr History File with all of where I visited in
 EV> Firefox, to me that shows IE is useing Double the space on my HDD.
 EV> As Charlie Brown would say, "UGH!!!!".

Yeah.  You're not just seeing double; they are using double the HDD real
estate!  But, that's partly why we're having to have multi-gigabyte HDDs
these days.  Progress has its drawbacks.  ;-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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