[Slogger] Sigh

[Ken Schutte]

Jon B wrote:
> 1. I really like the idea behind Slogger (I save *everything*), and
> have found it useful a few times in remembering things that I wouldn't
> have been able to remember otherwise, but it is slowing down my
> computer A LOT.  Every time I load a page, it freezes for several
> seconds.  I think it gets worse with time (maybe getting better at the
> beginning of each month?  We'll see...)  Is there anything that could
> be done to improve this?  I wonder if it is the log file or the data
> files that is slowing it down.

Is it set including all downloaded pages in the Firefox download 
manager?  (Look at Ctl-Y).  If not, I'm not sure what's happening...

> 2. It saves a lot of redundant data.  I wish there were a way to
> compress the files that it saves.  I might try using NTFS's file
> compression, but I fear that would just make it even slower.

I'm not sure of an elegant way to deal with this.

> 3. I set it to save HTML only, but it saves anything that I access
> with an address, so if I say "view image", and it shows the image's
> URL in the address bar, it saves the image, too.  I just want to save
> the text-based information from the pages I visit.  No images or
> movies or whatever.

I'm changing some things to make filtering more flexible, then this 
would be possible.

> 4. It keeps giving me this interrupting modal window error "The link
> could not be saved.  The web page might have been removed or had its
> name changed."  I'd really like to turn that off, as it interrupts my
> work for no real reason, but I don't see an option.  Turning it into
> an ignorable notification window or status bar icon would be much
> better.

Yeah, this comes from Firefox code - Slogger calls some of the same code 
as when you select File->Save As...  There are some bugs on 
bugzilla.mozilla.org related to this - I'm not sure what the deal is.

> 5. Also, I would like to be able to filter more powerfully.  For
> instance, filtering "google.com" currently makes it ignore google.com,
> but not www.google.com.  Ideally, this or "*.google.com" would make it
> ignore all such incarnations without having to type them in, such as
> print.google.com, images.google.com, and so on.  Maybe even better
> like filtering "*.google.com/search?q*", so I can filter out searches
> but still slog other parts of their site.

I'd like this too.  Like I said above, I'm putting it in...

Ken