Better History

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

Total ratings

3.95 (Rating count: 255)

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Pros
  • Nice UI and UX
  • Keeps history longer than 90 days
  • Easier search functionality compared to native Chrome history
Cons
  • Search functionality lacks tokenization and finds only exact matches
  • No calendar view for quick date navigation
  • No option to delete multiple entries at once
Most mentioned
  • Need for improved search function
  • Lack of calendar view for easier navigation
  • Desire for a better delete mechanism
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Recent rating average: 4.10
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Date Author Rating Lang Comment
2025-01-09
Tom Marino
en Just wondering why the delete button says "More From Site", instead of "Delete". A novice user like YT might not realize that pressing the button will delete the record.
2024-12-05
Fabio N.
en 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.
2024-12-02
nl8
en 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.
2024-11-29
Pseudonym
en nice UI and UX
2024-11-27
Tanmoy Roy
en Nice extension, just got one feature request: in the Activity section, is it possible to add a filter for Devices so that I can check history specific to my devices like mobile, laptop etc.?
2024-11-24
James Araali-Kabyanga
en Every time I need to use Better History I have to move to and click into the search bar. Why? Why can't it just auto-default to the search bar?
2024-11-23
Yudayana Arif
2024-11-14
Richald John
en chinese please
2024-11-13
Sessizer
2024-11-03
ЗАВОД ДИЗЛАЙКОВ им. СЕРГЕЯ СИМОНОВА (ДА ДА НЕ УДИВЛЯЙТЕСЬ!)
ru КАК ОТКРЫТЬ ВКЛАДКИ ЗА ЦЕЛЫЙ ДЕНЬ? ЧТОБЫ НЕ КАЖДУЮ ПО ОТДЕЛЬНОСТИ ТЫКАТЬ, А ВСЕ РАЗОМ?
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