Browser history hasn't changed much in over 15 years. The last substantial improvement was when the Awesomebar was introduced in Firefox 3 in summer 2008.
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Browser history hasn't changed much in over 15 years. The last substantial improvement was when the Awesomebar was introduced in Firefox 3 in summer 2008.
The Chrome folks have done some impactful things, but none of them actual improvements based on what I can see; their contribution looks like it begins and ends with imbuing their browser with a browsing history feature that doesn't actually remember your browsing history.
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Things I want from my browser:
1. if I click on a link labeled or titled* "foobarbaz", to remember that, so I can recall it from history that way even if that text doesn't appear in the page title or URL
2. given a page/URL, let me trivially see which other pages from my browser history have links to that page
* <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/title>
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In fact, it should be a preference whether this includes just clicked links or clicked and unclicked links—clicked links should obviously be given greater weight than unclicked links, though.
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it would be great to be able to capture such unclicked on links in some sensible manner. For example I've frequently seen something on a site like Facebook, clicked on say a link in the comments of a post, then wanted to go back and click into the main post - only to have Facebook refresh and no longer show that post to me - forcing me to try to find it in Facebook's various histories or on a friend/FB group's feed (which is often not easily done)
or all the results presented in search