history Tree is a cool Firefox add-on that lets you view your web history like a tree or block of screenshots.So if you have visited a large number of web pages in the past hour it may be difficult for you hunting down for a particular page. But if you could see the screenshot of the visited page (rather than the URL) you can quickly recognize it.History tree does just the same.
History Tree is a cool Firefox add-on that lets you view your web history like a tree or block of screenshots.So if you have visited a large number of web pages in the past hour it may be difficult for you hunting down for a particular page. But if you could see the screenshot of the visited page (rather than the URL) you can quickly recognize it.History tree does just the same.
What can be viewed using history tree ?
History tree lets you view three important stats :
1.Your recently visited pages
2.Currently open tabs
3.Recently closed tabs
Following is a screenshot of how the history tree actually looks
firefox-history-tree
Each box in the history tree represents a site that you had visited and has two buttons under them.One button is the arrow which indicates that this webpage has pages linked to it.That means after visiting that page you had jumped to another page and hence the tree like structure is shown. The next button is represented by a question mark which shows you other important data ( e.g Currently open tabs,time of visit, duration etc).
Clicking the question mark button also shows you a bigger picture of how the page looked.
larger-view-webpage-firefox
Apart from viewing the individual website history in Firefox you can also show all open tabs,show all open pages,show a selected tab and show all closed tabs.
On selecting the website thumbnails options you are presented with thumbnails of your previously visited sites in Firefox.Clicking a thumbnail lets you open the webpage in a new tab as shown below
website-thumbnails
The size of the website screenshots can be adjusted according to your desire. The most promising feature of history tree is the ability to search and find a particular website from a whole lot of visited pages so there isn’t a problem if you are looking for a page you had visited a couple of hours ago.The found pages are highlighted in green and you can even search web pages by URL.
History tree Works with Firefox 3.0 and 3.5. To use it go to Tools-> History tree.
Downside : The only downside of history tree is it is not able to save your browsing history. If you close the browser everything is gone !
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