updated the beagle instructions

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Jean-Francois Dockes 2012-10-29 07:55:11 +01:00
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panel, or by editing the configuration file (set
<varname>processbeaglequeue</varname> to 1).</para>
<para>There are more recent instructions about how to find and
install the <application>Firefox</application> extension on the
<important><para>For the extension to work, you will need to manually
create the queue directory:
<filename>~/.beagle/ToIndex/</filename>.</para></important>
<para>Current Firefox versions need a slightly adapted extension
module. This can be found, along with up-to-date instructions, on the
<ulink url="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/IndexBeagleWeb">
Recoll wiki</ulink>.</para>
<para>Unfortunately, it seems that the plugin does not work anymore
with recent <application>Firefox</application>
versions (tried with 10.0). This is not the
trival installation version check issue, explicit manual indexing
requests still work, but automatic indexing on page load does
not.</para>
<para>A copy of the indexed WEB pages is retained by Recoll in a
local cache (from which previews can be fetched). The cache size can
be adjusted from the <guilabel>Index configuration</guilabel> /
<guilabel>Beagle web history</guilabel> panel. Once the maximum size
is reached, old pages are purged - both from the cache and the index
- to make room for new ones, so you need to explicitly archive in
some other place the pages that you want to keep
indefinitely.</para>
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