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Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

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Post by pimlottc »

izacus wrote: post #10
diggan wrote: post #7

This ( and TreeStyleTab ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... ) ) 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. Which is kind of ironic since Google is all about search and data but can't handle a browser addr…

Yeah, it's incredible how search in the Chrome's URL doesn't find URLs (or page titles) I've visited 15 minutes ago. It's utterly frustrating.

In my experience, Chrome seems to be highly biased to matching the beginning of titles (and URLs). It really doesn't like suggesting based on a match deep in the title until you add something like the tld or the site name which often appears at the beginning of all titles.

Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

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Post by w-ll »

RachelF wrote: post #37
diggan wrote: post #7

This ( and TreeStyleTab ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... ) ) 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. Which is kind of ironic since Google is all about search and data but can't handle a browser addr…

Thanks for the tip - TreeStyleTab is great!

TreeStyleTab really just blew my mind. I think it's the straw breaking for me to go back to FF.

Seriously, tabs on the side in a tree view make SO MUCH SENSE!

I know many of you probably have a few dozen tabs in chrome open, and you gotta guess whats what from the icon. We keep making monitors more widescreen yet webpages mostly need a max-width. I'd bet in the next few years all browsers will switch tabs to a treeview like this.

And wow, the chrome extensions trying to do the same thing are fugly as all getout.

Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

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Post by yoavm »

alistproducer2 wrote: post #34

I wrote an extension that did the same thing a couple years ago. http://lifehacker.com/deeper-history-searches-the-contents-o... 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. I hope the develo…

Seems like this extension stores all the data locally, so it's probably much less of a problem.

Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

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Post by jasikpark »

diggan wrote: post #7

This ( and TreeStyleTab ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... ) ) 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. Which is kind of ironic since Google is all about search and data but can't handle a browser addr…

Google most likely wants you to just use google rather than search through your history.

Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

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Post by alistproducer2 »

yoavm wrote: post #43
alistproducer2 wrote: post #34

I wrote an extension that did the same thing a couple years ago. http://lifehacker.com/deeper-history-searches-the-contents-o... 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. I hope the develo…

Seems like this extension stores all the data locally, so it's probably much less of a problem.

As did mine. There are many well known attacks that breaks locally stored data out of its sandbox. If attackers are sure there are bank account numbers, balances, email addresses, and other sensitive info in plaintext, they'll come after it.

Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

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Post by KirinDave »

diggan wrote: post #16
KirinDave wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure why you're experiencing that, but Chrome's bar certainly does let you talk about titles. Just type "Hacker" or "news" and see. At least, that's what it's supposed to do and is currently doing for me. I just fired up Firefox, and neither actually seem to index into the content of the page, which is what's so cool about this modification.

I'm on Ubuntu and just tried this in Chrome, I went manually to news.ycombinator.com, then open a new tab and type "Hacker" and HN is nowhere to be find there...

There may be a regression with the Chrome support in that OS. As it is a very tiny share of the Desktop market and is the hardest shell to maintain of the 3, I'm not surprised.

I have confirmed it works fine on Windows 10 and OSX variants both in Canary and Stable.

You perhaps might be interested in reporting the bug. That's a major regression. I'd be annoyed if it was missing too. Not enough to go to Firefox, mind (the speed loss is too great once you have 20-40 tabs open), but it'd definitely lower the speed at which I work.

Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

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Post by superchink »

rl3 wrote: post #31

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. Obviously searching pre-existing bookmarked content (and not just history) would entail far more complexity, probably requiring a back-end service.

If you haven't looked at it already, Pinboard (https://pinboard.in/) might be worth checking out.

The premium service caches the content of everything you bookmark using the service, with full-text search (in addition to the usual tagging).

Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

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Post by izacus »

KirinDave wrote: post #47
diggan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm on Ubuntu and just tried this in Chrome, I went manually to news.ycombinator.com, then open a new tab and type "Hacker" and HN is nowhere to be find there...

There may be a regression with the Chrome support in that OS. As it is a very tiny share of the Desktop market and is the hardest shell to maintain of the 3, I'm not surprised. I have confirmed it works fine on Windows 10 and OSX variants both in Canary and Stable. You perhaps might be interested in reporting the bug. That's a major regression. I'd be annoyed if it was missing too. Not enough to go to Firefox, mind (…

That happens all the time on my Chrome in OS X as well.

Re: Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

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Post by diggan »

KirinDave wrote: post #47
diggan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm on Ubuntu and just tried this in Chrome, I went manually to news.ycombinator.com, then open a new tab and type "Hacker" and HN is nowhere to be find there...

There may be a regression with the Chrome support in that OS. As it is a very tiny share of the Desktop market and is the hardest shell to maintain of the 3, I'm not surprised. I have confirmed it works fine on Windows 10 and OSX variants both in Canary and Stable. You perhaps might be interested in reporting the bug. That's a major regression. I'd be annoyed if it was missing too. Not enough to go to Firefox, mind (…

> the speed loss is too great once you have 20-40 tabs open

That leads me to my second point, TreeStyleTab. I commonly have 50+ tabs open, and they are nested nicely under each other so I actually can find them. In Chrome, there is bunch of half-baked addons for easier finding, but nothing like TreeStyleTab for Firefox.

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