Full Text Tabs Forever

Name: Full Text Tabs Forever
Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Author: iansinnott

By: iansinnott

Full text search all your browsing history

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Features & Capabilities

Search your full browsing history

Search everything you've seen in your browser. Full Text Tabs Forever (FTTF) is a powerhouse tool for navigating your browsing history.

Doesn't the browser already do that? How is this different?

Browsers do not let you search the text on pages you've visited, only the URLs/titles, and some delete your history after a number of months.

FTTF is different:

Full-Text Search Capabilities: The full content of every page you've visited becomes searchable, ensuring that no piece of information ever slips through the cracks.
Permanent History: Your digital footprints are yours to keep. Your data is yours, so it should not be removed without your approval. Nothing is deleted automatically.
Instant indexing: FTTF creates a search index as you browse, so pages are immediately available for searching right after you land on a page.
For your eyes only: Your browsing history is stored locally on your device, and not on any external servers. Beware that if you switch computers your FTTF history will not automatically come with you. It can be exported though.

Who is it for?

Data hoarders like myself that never want to delete anything, and want everything to be searchable. More generally, if you've ever felt limited by the standard history search you should try this out.

How it works:

Browser extensions have access to the pages you visit, which lets FTTF make an index of the content on any page. When a page loads its content is extracted and indexed.

Extracted? Yes, or "distilled" if you prefer. Full web pages are huge and have a lot of information that's not related to the content itself. FTTF will ignore all of that. It acts like "reader mode" to find relevant content on a page and only index that.

Open Source: This extension is fully open source. You can find the MIT-licensed source code here: https://github.com/iansinnott/full-text-tabs-forever

User Growth & Download Statistics

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Version:

1.2.2 Last updated: 2024-08-06

Version code:

5787807

Creation date:

2024-02-23

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Permissions:

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Content scripts matches:

<all_urls>

Size:

2.31MB

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-12

Compare stats and ranking:

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# 19,932 ▼ 604

Other rankings

#64 in fullhd keyword 12 ▼ 3#202 in pull keyword 3 ▼ 8

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Developed by:

iansinnott

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/full-text-tabs-forever/

User Reviews

by Fi*****, 2025-05-19

I can't figure out how to access the search ui after a good 20 minutes looking for it everywhere. I even dug through the source code and I can't find any UI entry points anywhere.

by 20*****, 2025-05-14

Very nice, but I would rather have on-demand indexing, instead of instant. I don't want to index every page; but I want to index everything on pages that I do index.

by PR*****, 2025-03-03

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Is Full Text Tabs Forever Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Full Text Tabs Forever requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Full Text Tabs Forever has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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