browser - Firefox maintains history as a set, not as a list?

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2014-07
  • Tyler Durden

    This may sound strange, but when I revisit sites from my browsing history they get deleted from their original position and added again at the end. This seems kind of bizarre and I would like to disable this behavior. In other words I want to see the list of all sites in the order I have browsed them, not the set which is the sites I have visited.

    Just to make this clear, lets say my browsing history is as follows:

    1. abc.com
    2. def.com
    3. ghi.com
    4. klm.com
    5. opqur.com
    6. st.com

    Now, lets say I visit site def.com again. Then what happens is this:

    1. abc.com
    2. ghi.com <=== def.com is now missing from the history
    3. klm.com
    4. opqur.com
    5. st.com
    6. def.com

    So, Firefox, deletes it from its original place in the list and adds it at the end. What I would prefer is this:

    1. abc.com
    2. def.com
    3. ghi.com
    4. klm.com
    5. opqur.com
    6. st.com
    7. def.com

    This shows I visited def.com twice, once after abc.com and once after st.com. Is there a way to compel this behavior from Firefox?

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  • Philip

    I am aware, thanks to a thread [1], that Firefox doesn't save sessions when browsing history is cleared at close, as effectively the open tabs are themselves cleared from the history before the session is saved.

    But I would like Firefox to behave differently. Is there any way to change Firefox's behavior so it will clear my browsing history when it closes, but remember only that a certain list of tabs were open, and then restore those tabs when it opens (not even necessarily with those tabs' histories)?

    I'm running Firefox 3.5.6 on Mac OS X 10.5.

    [1] https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/381229


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  • outsideblasts

    I think the Tab Mix Plus addon, having its own session manager would be able to do this. You'll need to tweak the built in Firefox settings via Tools-Options-"Firefox will never remember history". I'm fairly sure that it'll work on Mac.

  • Pulse

    No need for any add-on...

    You can manually force the "session restore" page to appear any time by simply using:

    about:sessionrestore

    Found at http://www.webupd8.org/2009/08/quick-firefox-35-tip-manually-open.html

    Well, there is way to get back the Session Restore page manually, by typing this in the url bar:

    about:sessionrestore

    So the next time when you accidentally click on wrong button use the above trick to get back the session restore page.

    Google is your friend... see also

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