blackboxme Posted June 25, 2009 The history features on firefox suck, at least relative to the ones you find in Google Chrome. How can this be the number two browser in the world, used by millions of open-source programmers, and nobody's written a fully featured history plugin? Anybody else running up against this problem? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gdf Posted June 25, 2009 I don't mind the History stuff in Firefox, search is your friend. Then again, I never use it much. If I ever need to revisit a page I'll type what I need in the browser bar and the page will come up in the list, but I can't say I do that often either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elmuerte Posted June 26, 2009 History > View > By Date? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
syntheticgerbil Posted June 26, 2009 The Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser.[11] To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.[12]The Firefox project has undergone several name changes. Originally titled Phoenix, it was renamed because of trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. The replacement name, Firebird, provoked an intense response from the Firebird free database software project.[13][14][15] In response, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird to avoid confusion with the database software. Continuing pressure from the database server's development community forced another change; on February 9, 2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox,[16] often referred to as simply Firefox. Mozilla prefers that Firefox be abbreviated as Fx or fx, though it is often abbreviated as FF.[17] The Firefox project went through many versions before 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004. After a series of stability and security fixes, the Mozilla Foundation released its first major update, Firefox version 1.5, on November 29, 2005. [edit] Version 2.0 Main article: Mozilla Firefox 2 On October 24, 2006, Mozilla released Firefox 2. This version includes updates to the tabbed browsing environment; the extensions manager; the GUI; and the find, search and software update engines; a new session restore feature; inline spell checking; and an anti-phishing feature which was implemented by Google as an extension,[18][19] and later merged into the program itself.[20] In December 2007, Firefox Live Chat was launched. It allows users to ask volunteers questions through a system powered by Jive Software, with guaranteed hours of operation and the possibility of help after hours.[21] [edit] Version 3.0 Main article: Mozilla Firefox 3 Mozilla Firefox 3 was released on June 17, 2008[22] by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox 3 uses version 1.9 of the Mozilla Gecko layout engine for displaying web pages. The new version fixes many bugs, improves standard compliance, and implements new web APIs.[23] Other new features include a redesigned download manager, a new "Places" system for storing bookmarks and history, and separate themes for different operating systems. The current version is Firefox 3.0.11. Development stretches back to the first Firefox 3 beta (under the codename 'Gran Paradiso'[24]) which had been released several months earlier on 19 November 2007,[25] and was followed by several more beta releases in spring 2008 culminating in the June release.[26] Firefox 3 had more than 8 million unique downloads the day it was released, setting a Guinness World Record.[27] I don't see what's so bad about it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blackboxme Posted June 26, 2009 Hmm, well, I did find something a bit better. If you hit shift+ctrl+h, you can at least get a full screen view of the history. What can I say, I like to be able to see the date and time on my history, and have it be treated like a normal DOM'd up web-page like Chrome has it, whatevs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SignorSuperdouche Posted June 26, 2009 Why were you searching for "hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe" ? What the hell were you actually looking for? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blackboxme Posted June 27, 2009 Why were you searching for "hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe" ? What the hell were you actually looking for? Google told me to... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erkki Posted June 28, 2009 History > View > By Date? And this is even the default view in my case (I've never looked at it so I know I haven't changed it) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blackboxme Posted June 28, 2009 And this is even the default view in my case (I've never looked at it so I know I haven't changed it) Yeah, but there aren't any date or time markings associated with that, which makes it less useful. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elmuerte Posted June 28, 2009 There are dates, no time, but there are dates The history feature is useless if you ask me, if I made a browsing mistake I will just rewind time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
