Search Through Older History

[gbsix]

This extension can currently only search the browser's saved history. Once we clear the history, it will no longer be searchable. Have you considered enabling the extension to search through past browsing history, similar to the Falcon extension? However, it would not be necessary to index the entire text, only the web page titles, and it would be limited to a certain time frame, such as history from the past 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 365 days, etc. It would also automatically delete history records from before this time period.

Thank you!

[Fannon]

That's an interesting idea and would be quite possible to implement, allthough also requiring some effort.

One advantage of this would also be that you can cache history in the extension local data storage and not get the full history from the browser.

Allthough I need to say that here is definately a catch: The more history items you put into the search index, the slower it becomes. And it's also a feature I wouldn't want to activate by default, as some users clear the history for the very reason that the browser forgets it. Having an extension still keeping it may be seen as a privacy concern.

So I'd need to think about it - right now I'm tending toward not implementing this. Instead, users could just make sure they keep long enough history and increase this extensions history span to extend farther back in time. If you want to keep something more permament, then put it into bookmarks :)

[gbsix]

I agree with what you said. Even if we make this change in the future, it doesn't have to be a mandatory feature, just let the users decide whether to turn it on or off. The idea comes to me because sometimes I want to find a web page I previously browsed, but can't remember and have no way to search for it. This feature is just a precaution. I always save important pages as bookmarks. Of course it's up to you to decide whether to implement it or not. Thank you!

[Fannon]

Ok, I'll close this issue for now - but in case this extension gets a bookmark cache layer, this feature could become (optionally) available. Although I personally don't have plans to implement that yet - or would use it myself.