Recent Tabs and History (Wrona History Menu)

Name: Recent Tabs and History (Wrona History Menu)
Rating: 4.771428571428571 (70 reviews)
Author: Łukasz A.J. Wrona

Restore, filter or remove recently closed tabs, windows and history including those from other devices.

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Recent Tabs and History (Wrona History Menu) is a powerful Chrome extension designed to help you restore, filter, or remove recently closed tabs, windows, and browsing history across all your devices. It allows you to filter out unwanted history entries and includes a blacklist feature to prevent certain sites from appearing in your recently visited list. The extension supports infinite scroll for easy navigation through your browsing history and comes with a dark mode that syncs automatically with your system theme. As free software under GNU GPL V3, it offers both flexibility and privacy for users looking to manage their web activity more effectively.

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Version:

2.5.1 Last updated: 2022-12-02

Creation date:

2016-08-15

Risk:

Permissions:

tabs
history
sessions
windows
favicon
storage
bookmarks

Size:

75.38KB

Email:

lu*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-08

Ranking

# 11,761 ▲ 1,034

Other rankings

#766 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 13 #14 in menu keyword 34 ▲ 1 #49 in restore tabs keyword 19 ▲ 5 #70 in history keyword 25 ▲ 15

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Recent Tabs and History (Wrona History Menu) (v2.5.0)

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User reviews

Users appreciate this extension for its convenient and customizable dropdown menu to access recent tabs, windows, and full browsing history across devices, praising its dark mode and minimalist design. Common issues include the inability to consistently open links in new tabs as preferred, slower menu loading times, and concerns over bookmark permissions posing a security risk. Users also desire improvements like hotkey assignment, enhanced time/date display formats, and UI visibility enhancements. Overall, it is considered one of the better history extensions available with useful features.

Pros

Provides quick access to recently closed tabs, windows, and browsing history without leaving the current page.
Highly customizable with features like dark mode and adjustable menu size.
Allows filtering, searching, and deleting individual history entries easily within a neat dropdown interface.
Supports viewing history and tabs from all logged-in devices.
Minimalist and visually pleasing design making it easy to use.

Cons

Extension sometimes opens links in existing tabs instead of new tabs despite user preference.
Slow menu response and occasional performance issues noted.
Permission to read and modify bookmarks raises security concerns among users.
Lack of features such as assigning hotkeys for restoring tabs and better time formatting for history entries.
Some find the separator and UI elements less visible or could be improved for clarity.

Recent reviews

Restore, filter, or delete recently closed tabs, windows, and history (including those from other devices), Reading and modifying your browsing history on all logged-in devices is normal. Why does this extension require permissions to read and change your bookmarks? This extension poses a security risk! ！！恢复、过滤或删除最近关闭的选项卡、窗口和历史记录（包括来自其他设备的选项卡、窗口和历史记录），读取和更改您在所有登录过的设备上的浏览记录正常，为什么这个扩展需要读取和更改您的书签的权限？此扩展存在安全隐患！！！

s *****, 2025-03-28

Handy dropdown menu for history, especially if you don't want to leave the page an only see back a dozen or so pages. 5 stars.

ro*****, 2025-03-16

very decent !! works as expected. one thing i would love to be added as an option - color/mark visited tabs that are 2nd last and 3rd last, upto last 5 tabs with different shades colors(bright to light , bright being the immediately visited last tab) or numbers to them so that its visible/identifiable in my sea of tabs. thanks

Go*****, 2025-03-03

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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Recent Tabs and History (Wrona History Menu) requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

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Recent Tabs and History (Wrona History Menu) has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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