Not to override entries in history
Hello. Entries for pages in history override themselves every time you open page. So if I want to find in history how I got to some page (e.g. see preceding pages by time) - I can't. So basically, history is not preserving history. Any way to avoid this behaviour? Thank you.
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The Library window collapses every visit to a particular URL to one entry, listed under the date/time of the latest visit.
Firefox still has the data on earlier visits so you can use a separate tool to extract the full list. If you are mostly interested in a daily list, this extension has a nice layout. However, if you need to search across a lot of dates, it doesn't show as much detail:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firefox-better-history/
If you need to track history per tab or from site to site, I think there probably are other extensions for that, but I've never tried them.
Hello. Thank you for advice.
But since
>The Library window collapses every visit to a particular URL to one entry, listed under the date/time of the latest visit.
even this plugin has the same issue (since database is the same).
I mean you if open something and then want to find when you opened it before - you can't.
What I want to achieve - is to have history as history and not as database of unique URLs I visited (1 timestamp per 1 URL).
But I think it is only possible by changing Firefox code, not by plugins.
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No, Firefox has the data on all the visits, but the Library window does not show all the data.
(I use a Windows program named MzHistoryView to export a zillion-page .html file of my history every month so I've definitely seen it. I don't know of a similar program for Mac.)
Interesting. Because I tested the plugin you suggested and it has the same issue. I opened history in it -> found a link from Monday -> opened it -> refreshed history -> link *moved* to Wednesday.
Maybe Firefox on macos has different implementation of history. Or I need to try my luck with different plugin.
Yes, I guess that extension is also de-duplicating the history. I don't know whether the author will consider providing an option for that.