Re: Browser re-org



On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 12:07 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> Sort of tangential to the main thread, but I think subtly related, I'd
> love to be able to see my browsing history as a graph instead of the
> fake linearity all current browsers impose. That would certainly help
> me find things (though I've got a higher tolerance for complexity than
> most.)

Trailblazer (for Mac OS) does this. They've got a demo video at
<http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/macwarriors/projects/trailblazer/>.

I've considered writing an extension in Epiphany which does similar
stuff, with thumbnails of web pages and all, but it'd be a lot of effort
and I don't see myself using it all that much.

My use case for history is:

1. Press Ctrl-H.
2. Enter some search terms.
3. Get annoyed because the web page I want was titled badly and I can't
find it.
4. Go through my past 30 minutes of browser history, in chronological
order.
5. Open a few links that I think might be the ones I want; they aren't.
6. Finally find the link.

In my opinion, being able to search history full-text would be perfect.
Whenever I open my history I can easily think up a sentence fragment
which would be unique to the page I'm looking for.

This would be an ideal candidate for a C# extension, since there's
already DotLucene (the indexing engine used by Beagle). If C# extensions
worked properly, I think an entire History replacement extension would
be trivial.

-- 
Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>

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