Firefox history not detailed enough
When I type in a word to search in Firefox history, it only reveals to me websites with that word in the title or if I've searched for that particular word previously.
Let's say I did a search for gorillas and read an article I found on gorillas and there was a mention of Harambe in the article on the page I visited.
Later on when I want to find that article but can't remember what to look for; if I type 'Harambe' in the history search bar, it won't find for me the article on gorillas.
Google Chrome history would actually find any page I visited that contained the word Harambe, Firefox would require me to search for gorillas to find the article.
Is there an app so I can get a more detailed history search feature?
If not I may as well go back to Chrome as I often need to revisit sites from words I read in the articles on the page.
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Hmm, so possibly Chrome doesn't do that any more. When you get a chance to test, if you find the feature, let me know where it is.
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StephenSLR said
When I type in a word to search in Firefox history, it only reveals to me websites with that word in the title or if I've searched for that particular word previously.
Firefox matches characters in the title and/or URL of the page.
Let's say I did a search for gorillas and read an article I found on gorillas and there was a mention of Harambe in the article on the page I visited.
Later on when I want to find that article but can't remember what to look for; if I type 'Harambe' in the history search bar, it won't find for me the article on gorillas.
Google Chrome history would actually find any page I visited that contained the word Harambe, Firefox would require me to search for gorillas to find the article.
Really, wow. How do they do that?? (Off to experiment...)
Hmm, Google Chrome history doesn't work that way for me. Are you using menu > History (Ctrl+h) or some other method? Maybe I've modified a privacy setting somewhere.
Anyway, Firefox's normal history function does not allow searching page contents, you would need an add-on for that. Maybe something along these lines that allows you to make a fully searchable offline copy of interesting pages:
It has been a few years since I used Chrome but I'm pretty sure I'd always find the result I was looking for using Chrome history and it would search pages, granted, a lot of results did show up during searches iirc.
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Hmm, so possibly Chrome doesn't do that any more. When you get a chance to test, if you find the feature, let me know where it is.
I haven't installed Chrome on my home computers, they had Chrome at the last place I worked and I recall the history search feature was always better.
If they've dropped their game then I may as well stick with FF or find an app to make it better.
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StephenSLR said
I haven't installed Chrome on my home computers, they had Chrome at the last place I worked and I recall the history search feature was always better. If they've dropped their game then I may as well stick with FF or find an app to make it better. s
I chose Firefox because I think Chrome won't serve my purpose. Or would it? Please have a look at my question: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1152310