Bug 14838 – History Enhancement Request

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: DUPLICATE
• Component: New Bugs

[Sam Spencer]

Okay, I have feature request for the interface that has just now become of tantamount importance to me. After 3 hours of browsing doing research, opening tabs to the side for later, multiple windows, etc., I had to close the clamshell lid of my MacBook Pro, and switch rooms. Well, my laptop hated some part of that, because when I reopened the lid, the screen stayed dark and the fans revved to 100%. I don't know if Safari/webkit caused it, but I was forced to do a hard reboot. So I lost all my open windows, and the webpages buried in mounds of history.

Now, I realize that you've probably received about a bazillion requests to implement session saving in Safari/Webkit. I'm not looking for that. What I want to see is something that would be complementary to that, and is something that no other browser that I know of has:

I want to see the history section of the bookmarks page to reflect and be able to sort the results by the TIME spent with any given page in any tab open. The problem with the history page as it is now with tabbed browsing, is that it's completely linear. No matter what tab you're in you have the same history to refer back to. 

So in a case like mine where I had a window set aside for later, or perhaps a lengthy article, etc., I have no easy way of finding it again unless it's close to the top of the pile. If a user could track in the history recent pages as well as length of time spent at pages, you could find both your recent pages and your most important pages VERY easily. It would have saved my life, and I think it would do a world of good to include a relatively uncomplicated feature in the final release. Just my two cents.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14837 ***