Historia

Name: Historia
Rating: 4.7391 (23 reviews)
Author: erosman

By: erosman

Control your Browsing History for Privacy and Performance

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Features & Capabilities

Historia is a small multi-process extension to improve browsing Privacy by filtering and deleting private or unwanted history items, plus clear Host history and cookies. Slimmer history database should also help with browser Performance.

Note: None of my extensions contain any tracking, advertising or privacy infringement.

Features

Use Patterns to prevent items appearing in the browser History
Regular Expression capability to Filter Patterns
Search and Delete History items by keyword
Delete History items by Date
Auto-Delete History (older than set number of days)
Delete Host History from Toolbar
Delete Host Cookies from Toolbar
Filter Host History from Toolbar (add host to the filter list)
Delete Recent History Preference added to select how many hours
Import/Export Preferences
Help Guide

In Future

Maybe adding option to delete Download History (download search API is buggy) The API is due to be fixed for FF57

Permissions Explanation:

Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history: Used only to export Preference
Access browsing history: Used to delete history items
Display notifications to you: Used to inform users
Access your data for all websites: Used to delete cookies for all websites

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

erosman

Daily users:

536 10

Rating:

4.74

(23)

Version:

1.4 Last updated: 2020-12-13

Version code:

5149072

Creation date:

2017-08-01

Risk:

Permissions:

Size:

76.53KB

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-19

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 4,699 ▲ 66

Other rankings

#43 in store keyword 62 ▼ 1

#54 in history keyword 26 ▲ 1

#58 in performance keyword 18 ▲ 1

#65 in story keyword 31 ▲ 1

#154 in stop keyword 20 ▼ 1

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Developed by:

erosman

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/historia/

Website:

https://github.com/erosman/support

User Reviews

Historia cleans Firefox history by auto-deleting entries based on age, keywords, or domain, and by removing cruft like redirects. Users praise its set-and-forget cleanup and reliable desktop performance, with a clear desire for cross-platform support (Chrome/Android). Some note potential slowdowns or inconsistency when purging very large histories, but core functionality remains the main strength.

Pros

Auto-deletes history by age, keywords, or domain (configurable cleanup).
Effectively removes cruft from history, such as garbage URLs and redirects.
Set-and-forget automation for history maintenance.
Works well on desktop; generally reliable.
Keeps useful history while purging the rest for a cleaner, more manageable history.

Cons

Cross-platform availability is limited: Chrome export and Android port are not available currently (requests from users).

Recent reviews

Exactly what I was looking for to keep my history in check

by Sq*****, 2025-09-04

Please keep updating this addon, it's great and underrated.

by Fo*****, 2025-05-01

by 远离*****, 2025-03-27

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Is Historia 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.

Historia requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

Historia has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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