This ( and TreeStyleTab (<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...</a>) ) is the main reasons I keep preferring Firefox for leisure-browsing before Chrome. Every time I use Chrome, it's impossible to find previous pages based on the title or URL, while in Firefox is super simple and works really well.<p>Which is kind of ironic since Google is all about search and data but can't handle a browser address bar...
> you can clone it on your local machine, read through our code to verify that it is not malicious, and then install it<p>I like that the authors share my concern about installing an extension that would by design record every page I visit. However the repository contains several minified Javascript files [1]. This somewhat contradicts their invitation to read through the code.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon/tree/master/extension/js/lib" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon/tree/master/extension/js...</a>
I wrote an extension that did the same thing a couple years ago. <a href="http://lifehacker.com/deeper-history-searches-the-contents-of-visited-pages-1502340820" rel="nofollow">http://lifehacker.com/deeper-history-searches-the-contents-o...</a><p>I voluntarily removed it from the web store after realizing it was caching lots of sensitive data. I eventually started encrypting the stored info but I realized that if the extension ever became very successful, it would become a target and I wasn't comfortable with that.<p>I hope the developer of this extension will invest more effort in their user's security than a simple blacklist.
Really really useful extension, whoa. Searching the <i>content</i> of pages you've browsed. I need it legitimately multiple times a day lol.<p>Two caveats though: 1) obviously it can't index the pages you browsed before installing the extension and 2) it's a bit unclear how to use it (in searchbar press f tab).<p>I'm also interested to see info on storage usage after a long time using it.
This is awesome! We develop a tool that does exactly this and found that getting the search right can be really tricky given the very large volume of data. Love the simplicity of making it a chrome extension. Excited to try it out!
Gifs are great to explain visually.<p>The gif on this page is really bad at it.<p>Slow it down. I have watched it loop 5 times in the last 30 secondes and I still cannot tell what it is without reading the text. I feel dizzy.
Thank you for this! Many times have I wished the browser's history search could provide this.<p>Now that school is starting again, and I had some free time, I was thinking of working on a project that would allow to search through the websites you've visited, the documents you have on your machine, the photos and music you have on your machine (if you can run some program which generates a description for your photos and run some mp3 to lyrics program for the music), and all the same across many machines. I started looking at elasticsearch, because that is what I found during my research for the search tool I would need for this project.
It would be great if this worked for bookmarks as well. On average I probably accumulate about 10 new bookmarks per day of notable content. Over the years that adds up.<p>Obviously searching pre-existing bookmarked content (and not just history) would entail far more complexity, probably requiring a back-end service.
This has been one of my favorite things in Opera since they introduced it in the late 2000s. It seemed weird Chrome wasn't better at this. I'm going to have to give this Falcon a try because it looks just like what I would want!
I built something like this as well!<p>I wonder how you solved the data storage and indexing. Does it scale to multi-month heavy usage ? Does it deduplicate multiple visits?<p>Cool stuff, gotta put mine somewhere. Always planned to, but never got around to it.