From 614c7351e34b1e88316e87c7151693a6d22755bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean-Francois Dockes Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:55:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] updated the beagle instructions --- src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml | 23 +++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml b/src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml index a40c6238..36347a5a 100644 --- a/src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml +++ b/src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml @@ -716,17 +716,24 @@ recoll panel, or by editing the configuration file (set processbeaglequeue to 1). - There are more recent instructions about how to find and - install the Firefox extension on the + For the extension to work, you will need to manually + create the queue directory: + ~/.beagle/ToIndex/. + + Current Firefox versions need a slightly adapted extension + module. This can be found, along with up-to-date instructions, on the Recoll wiki. - Unfortunately, it seems that the plugin does not work anymore - with recent Firefox - 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. + + 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 Index configuration / + Beagle web history 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.