Reviews for Better History
Better History by Vincent Parizet
Review by sun girl
Rated 4 out of 5
by sun girl, 3 years agoIcon Flicker Problem BUG caused by uppercase icon name reference:
Better History extension is looking for an icon named globe.svg but in the .xpi the filename is Globe.svg
In my history this causes hundreds of simultaneous flickering icon refreshes which never find the icon so the page is full of flickering icons.
Please correct the filename of Globe.svg to match the reference in lowercase to: globe.svg in a new version.
This addon is useful for solving the problem of clicking on History entries without them being re-sorted to the top of the sort list. In Firefox's native History UI clicking an entry loses one's place in a date sorted list.
I did not report this as an issue at Github because I deleted my Github acct when it tried to force me to use 2FA which crosses the line out of what is practical to use. So I posted here as a Review as you also seemed appreciative of useful reports here.
Better History extension is looking for an icon named globe.svg but in the .xpi the filename is Globe.svg
In my history this causes hundreds of simultaneous flickering icon refreshes which never find the icon so the page is full of flickering icons.
Please correct the filename of Globe.svg to match the reference in lowercase to: globe.svg in a new version.
This addon is useful for solving the problem of clicking on History entries without them being re-sorted to the top of the sort list. In Firefox's native History UI clicking an entry loses one's place in a date sorted list.
I did not report this as an issue at Github because I deleted my Github acct when it tried to force me to use 2FA which crosses the line out of what is practical to use. So I posted here as a Review as you also seemed appreciative of useful reports here.
84 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18177036, 2 months agoNow deprecated unfortunately, but someone could fork
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ninetynine, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18352000, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18274054, 7 months agoConsidering the search doesn't work and that's the only useful feature in the default firefox history, I fail to see how this is a "Better History". The GUI looks great, but search is required. So close, yet so far.
- Rated 2 out of 5by uneliasmarsu, 9 months agoAs mentioned on the extensions github page it is unfortunately no longer being maintained.
A new fork of this extension called Better History NG has all the most important currently broken features such as the history search fixed! - Rated 5 out of 5by aluc4d44, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14723487, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 11741070, a year agoSadly no longer working :-(
- BUT - Now forked to Better History NG :-)
Thanks to Vincent Parizet for creating this & to Christoph Wagner for taking it over ! - Rated 1 out of 5by racecar56, a year agoUsed to love this extension. Sad to see that the search is broken - it's useless to me now. FF's own History window is so wonky and this was my only way to make things good.
Update: Thank you Nelson for pointing out "Better History NG"! Now I can stay on Firefox. - Rated 1 out of 5by Don Reba, 2 years agoSearch is broken, but, even when it worked, it would just show a list of results, like regular history. Meanwhile, the calendar view shows complete history, with no way to filter it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by figger, 2 years agoSearch is broken, and they apparently wont fix it. If anybody has any recommendation regarding history add-on to switch I would appreciate it.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Nelson, 2 years agoSomeone's forked this and is maintaining it, called "Better History NG".
- Rated 5 out of 5by Levingston, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by xeff4335, 2 years agoSearch does not work and even if it did, there is not hotkey to open. So you have to click the icon from the toolbar every time to open history. That will take some time to get used to.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13523096, 2 years agothe extension won't show anything when I typed on the search bar to search history
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17672748, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Overthinking Tech, 2 years agoThis used to be excellent but the search function has been broken for some time.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17635592, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by SystemPizza, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17613079, 2 years agoVery sorry to see that this no longer works and is no longer maintained. It was awesome.
- Rated 2 out of 5by nbryskin, 2 years agoI get "TypeError: visit.title is null" when searching history