# History Master

> Visualize browsing history, Discover your unknown habits, downloads supported. Chrome and Firefox are supported. Hope you enjoy.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/history-master](https://chrome-stats.com/d/history-master)

## Overview

- **ID:** `history-master`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Jiacai Liu
- **Category:** privacy-security,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 1,180
- **Weekly downloads:** 21
- **Rating:** 3.98 / 5 (55 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.1.6
- **Last updated:** 2020-08-17
- **First published:** 2016-10-03
- **Size:** 620 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/history-master/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/jiacai2050/history-master/issues](https://github.com/jiacai2050/history-master/issues)

## Description

History Master is a powerful Chrome and Firefox extension designed to help you visualize and analyze your browsing history like never before. With advanced search, filtering by date, keyword, and time, and sorting options based on visit time or frequency, it empowers users to discover unknown browsing habits effortlessly.

The extension features inspiring chart views including line charts for page views over time and pie charts showcasing your most visited websites by title or domain, as well as URL scheme distributions. Additionally, History Master supports download history visualization. Its intuitive design and comprehensive features make it an essential tool for anyone looking to gain deeper insights into their web activity and optimize their online habits.

## Rankings

- #3,004 — Overall
- #371 — Social & Communication
- #9 — history
- #19 — story
- #21 — waste
- #37 — discover

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `history`
- `tabs`
- `downloads`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

History Master is praised for its graphical data display, effective history organization, and support for cross-profile history import/export. It assists users in analyzing their browsing patterns and managing site visits. However, multiple users report limitations in displaying older history data, inconsistent data loading with 'no data' messages, interface issues like non-scrolling date panes, and unreliable search functions. These issues affect usability and user satisfaction, though for some it serves its purpose well.

### Pros

- Provides nice graphical representations of browsing data.
- Useful for analyzing browsing habits and tracking site visit frequencies.
- Helps organize browsing history by date better than native history management.
- Supports importing/exporting history between Firefox profiles without time restrictions.
- Helpful in managing internet addiction by monitoring site visit counts.

### Cons

- Does not display or access all past browsing history, especially older weeks/months.
- Sometimes shows 'no data' message despite indicating results are available.
- Left pane scrolling is dysfunctional, limiting date navigation.
- Search functionality is slow or does not work properly.
- Some users experience stability issues or find it slow and unreliable.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/history-master)