Full Text Tabs Forever

Search your full browsing history

Full Text Tabs Forever

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By: Zenture
Users: 152
-13
Version: 1.2.2 (Last updated: 2024-08-07)
Creation date: 2023-11-27
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • unlimitedStorage
  • downloads
  • tabs
  • activeTab
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 2.40M

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Extension summary

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

Doesn't Chrome do that already? How is this different?

Chrome does not let you search the text on pages you've visited, only the URLs/titles, and it deletes 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.

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User reviews

The indexing seems to work perfectly. However I have three complaints about the search functionality. Firstly, it attempts to be clever and gives me matches it thinks are related to the search term. This works terribly. For example, a search for "residency" gave me 60 "hits" 56 of which were false-positives, (resident, residual [why ?!] , residences, residential, etc.). A "Verbatim" checkbox really needs to be added (sticky between uses). And even when not verbatim, the current "related" words functionality is too lenient. Secondly I don't much like the very verbose format, which lists every single line in which a search term (or "variant"!) occurs, so in some cases there are only 2 hits per page. I think this should be limited to 2 lines maximum (like Google does). Better still would be a "verbose" checkbox (sticky between uses) to toggle between the current maximal view and a minimal view which has only no matching lines (like chrome history search), or maybe just one matching line. Thirdly, there is no "Visited" date provided. For me this is an absolutely fundamental requirement to a history search. I would prefer it to behave like chrome history search, with time as a fixed width column, and "separator" lines between different dates. This could be a really nice extension with these features.
by Barney Pitt, 2024-12-13

不支持搜索中文。搜索不区分在标题还是网页,显示内容过于杂乱。不能搜索现有历史记录。不能实时更新数据库,在搜索页面打开后浏览的网页,要重新打开搜索页才出来。在同个页面里跳转的网页无记录,比如翻到下一页后,浏览器历史记录里会有2个同名称不同网址的网页记录,这插件就1个
by xj y, 2024-05-06

by Ian Sinnott, 2024-04-08
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