reopening pages from the history destroys consistency of history trail
Hi,
I’m IT researcher and naturally I do a lot of research on the internet. In order to find information I previously retrieved, I keep a looong history trail. So when I’m looking for something (which I did not bookmark or noted otherwise) I’m scrolling back the history, sometimes weeks or months, and usually I can (more or less) easily find it by date, or by the cluster of related searches and pages in the history. When I then reopen some page from the history, the entry instantly jumps to the top of the history, leading to the following inconveniences:
1. In order to check other pages “in the surrounding” of the page just reopened I have to scroll the history back again to the location where the entry previously was.
2. Through subsequent reopening the related pages which used to be conveniently clustered at one point in the trail become cluttered all over the history and the relation among the pages is being lost, which is bad for checking that thematic cluster again in the future.
Q is now, is there a setting to “fix” that problem for me? If not, I could imagine that this behaviour would also inconvenient to other users and I would like to propose to add a feature as follows:
1. Add an option to allow duplicate entries in the history trail at the correct places regarding date of visit.
If there is no corresponding option available, I’d like to know how to proceed with proposing that feature.
Thanks a lot for your effort, Best Regards
Thomas Länger, Austria
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thl2371 said
. . . . the entry is resorted to the top
That's what I told you.
See if this helps you; Norwell History Tools {web link} Norwell reveals the history that is otherwise hidden from you in native firefox history viewer. Displays all browsing history chronological/sequentially as timeline. Advanced search, wildcards and filters. Chrome and Firefox history import tool.
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The History Manager sorts entries by last date/time accessed. If you use one of these links, it ihen is resorted to the top of the list.
Hi FredMcD,
I think you did not get the problem from my admittedly quite long post. The problem lies in the very fact that the entry is resorted to the top... (And yes, the current solution is not exactly inconsistent - but rather inconvenient for me for the given reasons...)
Regards
Thomas
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thl2371 said
. . . . the entry is resorted to the top
That's what I told you.
See if this helps you; Norwell History Tools {web link} Norwell reveals the history that is otherwise hidden from you in native firefox history viewer. Displays all browsing history chronological/sequentially as timeline. Advanced search, wildcards and filters. Chrome and Firefox history import tool.
Firefox only shows the most recent visit of a specific URL and opening a link for inspection will create a new history entry. A possible workaround is to open pages in a New Private Window/Tab to avoid creating new history items.
You can use an extension to get Private Browsing mode support per tab.
Private Browsing mode tabs get a dashed underline You can toggle Private Browsing mode on/off via the right-click context menu of a tab
Hi, Thanks for posting the two solution - both do solve my problems, although in a different way. Just to conclude for other readers coming unto this post, FF does internally store every single page visit - it is just the current history component which only lists the most recent visit to a page... Regards Thomas
If you do not want to affect the integrity of the history as a researcher then best is to avoid creating new history if you want to open a link for inspection and use the PB mode variant. You can still use the extension to find all history entries when a link has been visited if the visit count is more than 1.
Hi, And yes... But I decided to use the norwell tools (which do everything I want and much more) because once I forget to use PB and click the link in normal mode – no way to get that link back to its former place. Regards Th.