View Firefox Web Browser History Visually with Thumbstrip
February 21, 2008 – 9:55 pmIf you take a look at your Mozilla Firefox History sidebar now, it is not very intuitive isn’t it? All links are listed in plain text file, making it troublesome for one to identify recently browsed website in an instant. Thumbstrip is a Firefox add-on that attempt to solve this problem, by taking screen shots of browsed websites to replace the default Mozilla Firefox web browser history sidebar.
What Thumbstrip Does
Thumbstrip records your web browsing history in the form of small thumbnails / screen shots that can be displayed as a filmstrip in a collapsible bar at the bottom of Mozilla Firefox. By doing so, you don’t have to guess which link relates to which websites - Thumbstrip shows you the visual web page layout in an instant! You can click on any of the filmstrip to open the corresponding website.
Thumbstrip Features
- Collapsible bar - the Thumbstrip bar is collapsible to expand viewing space and can be recalled at any time.
- Works out of the box!
- Save and load filmstrip - you can save your browsed filmstrip history (.film) for future web browsing.
- Share your filmstrip with others - you can send your filmstrip to a friend with Thumbstrip installed.
- Share your filmstrip with the world by uploading it to Intuit’s website.
- Pause Thumbstrip recording.
- Sort function - just like your default Firefox history sort function.
- Option not to record secure websites for extra privacy.
- Block a website from being recorded.
- Drag and drop support - move your mouse to the edge of the screen to browse through filmstrips. You can arrange the filmstrips if you want to.
Overall, Thumbstrip does a good job in showing Mozilla Firefox’s web browser history visually, so you can intuitively reach previously visited websites faster and easier. Use Thumbstrip today!
Tags: thumbstrip, web browsing, web browser history, firefox tips
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11 Responses to “View Firefox Web Browser History Visually with Thumbstrip”
This is a very very useful!
Have to be very careful not to record anything suspicious, though.
Great!
By noris on Feb 22, 2008
By Syahid A. on Feb 22, 2008
Looks really good Syahid. If it works with the latest Fireox 3.0? Yeah caution needed! not to record any INTERESTING website.
By Jawwad on Feb 22, 2008
hepi 500millions downloaded to firefox team
By syamsulariff.com on Feb 22, 2008
By Syahid A. on Feb 23, 2008
Pretty nice looking addon.
By Nirmal on Feb 26, 2008