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Reviews for webextensions History Browser

webextensions History Browser by gableroux

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5 reviews
  • by thanbo, 3 years ago
  • by Firefox user 12760379, 6 years ago
    First impression is good. I miss the favicons of the pages for better overview.
  • by rovyko, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 12663304, 7 years ago
    It's usable and gives good overview of history. You should work on the presentation though. The addon uses U.S. date format, please honor the locale. When some very long string without whitespace turns up, the table cell grows respectively, while also shrinking other columns to a tiny size. Please make sure that the table doesn't grow outside the screen and that minimum column size is guaranteed.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    I just released 1.0.2 which fixes the date format to use ISO 8601 instead which is built to sort lexicographically.

    Concerning the table issue, I tried my best to get the css working for the size, but I'm not sure what would be the best fix for this.

    Contributions are welcome if someone would try to fix this:
    https://github.com/GabLeRoux/webextensions-history-browser
  • by Firefox user 13938307, 7 years ago
    Neat and useful, a huge improvement over the default history panel! Just a few features I think would make this a 5 star addon:
    1. Show chronology of individual visits. E.g. If I've seen a particular video two days ago, but also today, there should be an option to see both on the history list.
    2. Infinite scroll, or at least show more than 100 items per page.
    3. Option to show a sidebar instead of a new tab.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    1. Show chronology of individual visits.
    I wish I could do this. The api only provides "HistoryItem"s:
    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/history/HistoryItem

    I'm not sure it's possible to have this information from the extension api, but I will investigate this a little more as there seem to be "VisitItem" which may be related:
    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/history/VisitItem

    2. Infinite scroll, or at least show more than 100 items per page.
    Good idea. I'm using DataTables and they implemented this a while ago according to this post:
    https://datatables.net/blog/2011-06-11

    I will try to add an options page so we can tweak this a little more.

    3. Option to show a sidebar instead of a new tab.
    I suppose this can be done by following this:
    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/user_interface/Sidebars

    But I'm not sure how it could fit into a sidebar tho

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    Thanks for your suggestions and glad to see it helped. btw, sorry for the 1 year later reply. Looks like I didn't have any notification from Firefox. I just came here to release a new version to fix the date time column fomat ;)