Better History

A better look at your browsing history. The best searching, the sharpest interface, and the most useful filters - for your history.

Better History - Manage Browsing Data Easily

Better History is a powerful Chrome extension that replaces your browser's default history viewer, offering advanced controls, efficient history search, easy deletion, unified view, and advanced search capabilities. It also features context menus, dark mode, and data privacy. Experience a smarter way to manage your web history with Better History.

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By: chromio.dev

Users: 100,000+

Rating: 3.95

(254)

4 new ratings

Version: 5.0.2 (Last updated: 2024-06-05)

Creation date: 2020-09-08

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Overrides history: Yes

Permissions:

favicon
tabs
storage
contextMenus
history
sessions
unlimitedStorage

Size: 756.74K

Email: ha*****@betterhistory.io

Ranking

# 2,235 ▼ 121

Other rankings

#3049 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 36

#3 in browser history keyword 60

#9 in history keyword 39 ▲ 5

#42 in browser settings keyword 94 ▼ 4

#58 in browsing keyword 95 ▲ 6

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

Enhance your browsing experience with the Better History extension, a powerful tool designed to replace your browser's default history viewer and provide you with advanced controls to manage and browse your browsing history. Discover the best searching, the sharpest interface, and the most useful filters for your history.

⭐ Key Features

(1) Efficient History Search: Quickly reference your history by jumping between days and hours with just a click.

(2) Easy History Deletion: Deleting a day, hour, or individual visit is painless. You can also delete by keyword or any single domain visits.

(3) Unified View: Merges your visits and downloads in one easy-to-view interface.

(4) Advanced Search Capabilities: Regular expression searching is now supported, making it easier to find specific entries.

User reviews

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Pros

Nice user interface and user experience
Easily searchable history
Keeps history for longer than 90 days
Allows quick deletion of multiple history entries

Cons

Lacks a calendar view for easier navigation
Auto-focus in search bar not implemented
Missing options for filtering history by device
No check boxes for selecting multiple entries for deletion

Most mentioned

Lack of a calendar view
Auto-default to search bar
Ability to keep history for longer than 90 days

User reviews

My use case: I usually want to find some item in history in order to see what other sites I visited during that session. This extension is good enough, but I would like to have the ability to quickly jump from an entry I found with search to the view where you see that entry in the entire timeline. Like, "jump to that day". Also, search is not very good: 1. I can't find the Wikipedia article "Ontology (information science)" by running the query "information ontology". Does it only search by exact match? Well, developers today know better. Not "better" history - Chrome's native search uses tokenization and finds that. 2. Better History only finds one entry for a URL, the latest one. But Chrome deliberately keeps many entries for a URL if they were visited in different days! E.g. you may visit a URL yesterday and today, and Chrome will save both of the visits, and they are both searchable. Better History only shows one - this is not good, and not "better" history. Two UI points: 1. When I press Ctrl+H, I want the search bar to be focused so that I could search immediately what I want without using my mouse. This is done in Chrome's native history. Again, not "better" history. 2. There is also no calendar by month to move metween dates quickly. There are a lot of calendar components in the web - don't reinvent the wheel, just use one of them. Good luck to the author, though, I saw some bugs fixed since I started using this. I'll improve the rating if I see the mentioned issues resolved.

Fabio N., 2024-12-05

Apart from working as intended, its a really nice UI. Only thing missing is options that allow deleting the day (completely) or even all (without going to the original history page to do so) - while that could be achieved using search, its kinda cumbersome and cannibalizes the value of the extenion.