Better History

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

What is Better History?

"Better History" is a Chrome extension that revamps your browsing history experience. It overrides the default history viewer, incorporating advanced features to improve usability. With Better History, you can leap between days and hours, delete certain visits or domains, and even merge your visits and downloads for a consolidated view. The extension also offers specialized search capabilities, such as regular expression searching, and context-menu based searches by URL or page title. In addition to this, enjoy intuitive viewing with dark mode and a clean, optimized user interface.

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By: chromio.dev

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Users: 100,000+

Rating: 4.10 (203) ▲ 2 new ratings

Version: 4.0.3 (Last updated: 2022-01-06)

Creation date: 2020-09-08

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Overrides history: Yes

Permissions:

chrome://favicon/
history
storage
contextMenus
unlimitedStorage
tabs
sessions

Size: 172.03K

Email: ch*****@gmail.com

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 2194 ▼ 34

Other rankings

#9688 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 19

#4 in browser history keyword 28 ▲ 1

#5 in history keyword 29 ▼ 1

#84 in usage keyword 21 ▼ 5

#87 in browser settings keyword 58 ▲ 2

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Summary

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Better History replaces your Browser's history viewer and adds more controls to manage and browse your history.

Key Features:

Reference your history quickly by jumping between days and hours in just a click.
Deleting a day, hour, or individual visit is painless in Better History.
Deleting by Keyword or any single domain visits also supported
Merges your visits and downloads in one easy view!
Regular expression searching is now supported!
Dark mode makes it easier to stay focused
Via context-Menus Search your history fast by page title or URL. Each match is highlighted in the search results for clarity. Use the right click options to search highlighted text on a page or by a site's domain.

Permission Justifications:

History: Adds more controls to manage and browse history
Storage: Save extension settings
Tabs: Using the right click options on any website to search text in history viewer

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Adds valuable features to Chrome history
Allows bulk deletion of a single site's history
Useful for professionals to track time and gather data
Improved UI, including dark mode and better date browsing
Enhances review and analysis of browsing history

Cons

Lack of regular updates from the developer
Some reported security concerns and bugs (e.g. XSS issue)
Doesn't escape HTML in history entries, leading to potential vulnerabilities
The search function is not working fully for some users
Date format is not customizable, which can be inconvenient for non-American users

Most mentioned

Enhanced search functionality and the desire for more features
Concerns about security vulnerabilities and lack of updates
The need for multi-language support and better internationalization
Requests for open-source code and GitHub presence
Improved user interface over the default Chrome history

Recent reviews

2021年12月2日更新！我趣现在好看太多了！

Purple4pur, 2021-12-04

只能按天，不能查看全部。

张艺瀚, 2021-06-01

Давно искал подобное приложение, а то стандартный журнал истории до ужаса не удобный. Жаль перевод на русский не полный. Автоhe спасибо!

Paul P., 2021-05-10

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Safety

Risk impact

Better History may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.