WebExtensions History Browser

Simple browser extension that helps you browse history like a boss.

Download Firefox addon ✌️

Firefox's default history sidebar is limited and the history browsing popup would benefit from some more features. It doesn't let you filter easily by date range as of September 2017. Other extensions that can do it aren't compatible with Firefox 57+ anymore, only work in firefox and/or aren't open source. This extension tries to solve all of these 🚀

Preview

Key features

• Search through all history
• Search in date column
• Sort columns
• Resize columns
• Reorder columns
• Firefox and Chrome support

TODO

Feel free to send merge requests if you'd like to try and solve some of these ✌️

• Add tests
• Add a datetime picker range to filter by dates (library already installed)
• Add a setting for the date format for Last visit time column (See #3)
• Convert icon to svg (it's already a vector based icon in resources)
• Improve title search by using browser.history query
• Export table data
• Test on Microsoft Edge
• Use a changelog system
• Deploy the Chrome extension

Done

• Have webpack watch for manifest.json and use the webpack-webext-plugin to simplify the workflow. Edit: I used samuelsimoes/chrome-extension-webpack-boilerplate and adapted webpack plugin to my needs
• Test on other browsers such as Google Chrome
• Allow resizing columns, maybe use something like jeffreydwalter/ColReorderWithResize (see it in action) (See #7)
• Release on the firefox addons page (See #2)
• Load all libraries from webpack with require instead of html tags
• Format Last visit time column
• Display history in a table
• Sort history by date
• Display number of visits per page
• Add page title search
• Create a logo
• Install bootstrap-daterangepicker
• Setup datatables for minimal out of the box filtering and column sorting
• Add some dark style using bootswatch's slate bootstrap theme
• Create a basic table layout

How to build it

npm install
NODE_ENV=production npm run build

The WebExtension in the addon folder should now work.

Live-development

NODE_ENV=development npm run start

Release

This will need some improvements, but here are personal notes I took:

npm i
npm version patch
# todo: update addon/manifest.json automatically based on package.json, for now, update the file manually
NODE_ENV=production npm run build
git push --tags
cd build
zip -r webextensions-history-browser.zip ./*

Visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/addon/webextensions-history-browser/versions/submit/

Contributions and Feature Requests

Sure can do! PRs are welcome ✌️. Feel free to open issues.

License

MIT © Gabriel Le Breton