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

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

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Post by joelg »

nornagon wrote: post #2

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!

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!

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

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Post by darkerside »

joelg wrote: post #3
nornagon wrote: post #2

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!

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!

This is really cool! Thanks for making it.

Browser history uses favicons, but I think I would go with tab screenshots. In your browser history, because everything is collapsed into a line, it's harder to parse a logical grouping, so having similar favicons helps. But in Visual History, because the history is tab specific, you don't have that problem. You are more likely to need to differentiate between different pages on the same site, making favicons less useful.

Regardless, this is really cool, and I'll definitely be sharing it.

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

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Post by darkerside »

nornagon wrote: post #2

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!

Was it something that languished in the feature backlog, or was there an intentional decision against it? Just curious :)

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

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Post by mshaler »

joelg wrote: post #3
nornagon wrote: post #2

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!

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!

Safari, please!

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

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Post by joelg »

mshaler wrote: post #6
joelg wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Safari, please!

We're planning on it! We'll both have some free time in January to work on this some more, and Safari is a high priority.

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

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Post by joelg »

n3t wrote: post #8

Do you know any similar add-on for Firefox?

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

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