Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

This ( and TreeStyleTab (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;tree-style-tab&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;tree-style-ta...</a>) ) is the main reasons I keep preferring Firefox for leisure-browsing before Chrome. Every time I use Chrome, it&#x27;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&#x27;t handle a browser address bar...

&gt; 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:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lengstrom&#x2F;falcon&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;extension&#x2F;js&#x2F;lib" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lengstrom&#x2F;falcon&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;extension&#x2F;js...</a>

I wrote an extension that did the same thing a couple years ago. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lifehacker.com&#x2F;deeper-history-searches-the-contents-of-visited-pages-1502340820" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lifehacker.com&#x2F;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&#x27;t comfortable with that.<p>I hope the developer of this extension will invest more effort in their user&#x27;s security than a simple blacklist.

Really really useful extension, whoa. Searching the <i>content</i> of pages you&#x27;ve browsed. I need it legitimately multiple times a day lol.<p>Two caveats though: 1) obviously it can&#x27;t index the pages you browsed before installing the extension and 2) it&#x27;s a bit unclear how to use it (in searchbar press f tab).<p>I&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x27;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.

Kippt used to do this. Unfortunately, I never got the email that their service was shutting down. And I lost all 500+ of my tagged bookmarks.

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&#x27;t better at this. I&#x27;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.

I made one a couple years ago called All Seeing Eye.. have not had time to update it since. Did screen capture too. On Github .

Very nice work, this will be useful in my day to day browsing for sure!

How similar is this to fetching.io?