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Re:Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor by m463 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @09:43PM (#20180004)
The way history is always implemented is also not helpful.

Say you browse sites A B C D E, then later you go back and browse D, then B.

History seems to be recorded as A C E D B

But recording A B C D E D B might be more cluttered, but more helpful as well. It shows you the decisions you made to browse from one thing to another.

This compaction method also seems to happen across days, destroying the list of everything you browsed on tuesday in order.

Re:Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor by dngray on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:33PM (#20180416)
> Say you browse sites A B C D E, then later you go back and browse D, then B.

> But recording A B C D E D B might be more cluttered, but more helpful as well. It shows you the decisions you made to browse from one thing to another.

That's personally why I have been using Tree Style Tab (for about a decade now)

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

• https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab

Re:Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor by kurtisc on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:22AM (#20182059)
Firefox's implementation of this annoys me. If I'm trying to find a page I was on before, I sort history by date (obviously) and go back to around the time I was on it to start clicking.

...which drags the website I clicked on to the top of my history, changing its temporal position and making me have to find the time period I was looking at before, which now looks textually different.

Re:Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor by SmirkingRevenge on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:29AM (#20182777)
There's no reason why there couldn't be multiple views of your history, if it's recorded with fidelity. The list of page views by time is often too noisy depending on what you are looking for, and the compacted view might be more useful. As you rightly point out, sometimes that page view log is what you want.

Really, the biggest use-case for browser history in its current form, seems to be to get people in trouble when nosy family members go peeking at it.

Re:Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor by patrick5415 on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:58AM (#20181726)
Completely agree. I don’t really understand the motivation for this behavior—surely they are not trying conserve disk space? I’d really like the history to just be like a log file. Even better if I could search within a specified time window.
Re:Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor by dx034 on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:21AM (#20181820)
Chrome shows the history as ABCDEDB. Just searches within time frames aren't possible.

I find the history in Firefox much less useful, one of the few areas I find Chrome superior.

Re:Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor by Mirioron on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:36AM (#20182118)
But chrome deletes your old history.
Re:Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor by TeMPOraL on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:35AM (#20181620)
> History seems to be recorded as A C E D B

I'd expect it to be recorded as A B C D B - if it's recorded like you wrote, it becomes completely illogical. I think I'd prefer your A B C D E D B.

Re:Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor by underwater on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:12AM (#20182642)
I remember an old IE based browser that represented history as nested side bar tabs.