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Show HN: A Tree-Based Way to Navigate Browsing History

43 points| kennethfriedman | 10 years ago |joeltg.github.io | reply

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[+] nornagon|10 years ago|reply
I've been wanting this for years. I worked on the Chrome team and wanted to make something like this the built-in way to browse history.

Instant install :) Thanks!

[+] joelg|10 years ago|reply
Thank you! Let us know if you find any bugs or have any suggestions.

On a side note, we were really torn on whether to use favicons or tab screenshots as the node images. If anyone has design opinions on this, we'd love to hear them!

[+] darkerside|10 years ago|reply
Was it something that languished in the feature backlog, or was there an intentional decision against it? Just curious :)
[+] willlma|10 years ago|reply
I've been wanting to build something like this. It would be really cool to see all tabs' histories side by side rather than just the current tab. Even though a tree gets wide pretty quickly, you're seldom using multiple tabs simultaneously, so if you make line-height a function of time, you shouldn't have too many items on a row.
[+] n3t|10 years ago|reply
Do you know any similar add-on for Firefox?
[+] joelg|10 years ago|reply
As far as I know, there's nothing else out there, unfortunately. But porting Chrome extensions to Firefox add-ons is pretty easy, so hopefully we (or anyone else!) will get around to that soon.

Edit: I stand corrected

[+] BorisMelnik|10 years ago|reply
this is beautiful, definitely the type of stuff you see get added to major browser versions.