New Firefox Extension: How’d I Get Here?
How'd I Get Here? takes you to the page on which you first clicked a link to the current page. It works in Firefox trunk (not Firefox 1.0) and will work in Firefox 1.1.
How'd I Get Here? takes you to the page on which you first clicked a link to the current page. It works in Firefox trunk (not Firefox 1.0) and will work in Firefox 1.1.
December 5th, 2004 at 3:37 am
“Only trunk builds of Firefox store the referrer information this extension uses.”
What is the relevant bug that added this behaviour? Does it also work when you disable the HTTP Referer header?
December 5th, 2004 at 4:49 am
It was https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128398. I don’t know whether the extension works with referrers disabled, but my guess is that it would not.
December 5th, 2004 at 5:01 am
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128398 which I wrote the patch for. I’m unsure if it still works with the Referer header disabled, it depends on how httpchannel->getReferrer works. I love the use cases, they’re exactly why I wrote the patch (although I use Moz 1.8alphas and get the URL from the history). This also fixes https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260405
December 5th, 2004 at 11:10 am
Bravo!
December 5th, 2004 at 9:28 pm
“and you may ask yourself…”
December 5th, 2004 at 10:08 pm
Nice and nifty – and start to be very close to a feature I want since a long time… a “fast backward” button that will bring me back to the previous domain and not simply the previous webpage (you browse deep into a website and you want to return on the page just before that… zip… fast back… zip!)
The fast backward UI could be a << just above the back button dropdown for example…
December 6th, 2004 at 12:17 am
What about a Mozilla (trunk) extension ?
December 8th, 2004 at 2:23 am
franCk, try http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_rewindforward.html.en
December 9th, 2004 at 5:06 pm
OK you can access all the information – is it possible to use the underlying functionality to remove it all?
My paranoid side says I want to get rid of all the history my browser is accumulating
December 9th, 2004 at 7:24 pm
IIRC, you can turn off history (including visited link coloring) in Tools > Options > Privacy by setting it to 0 days.
December 10th, 2004 at 10:38 pm
Personally I’m very disappointed with FireFox…. and really don’t understand how anyone who understands “bookmarklets” and the power of JavaScript could be happy with a “new browser” that really doesn’t embrace user control. There’s really no technical obstacle to allowing users to control how JavaScript is processed– likewise there is no technical obstacle to allowing the user to inject whatever control features they would like using just one JavaScript based “toolbox” script/extension. To sacrifice the efficient power of IE’s movable div’s and filters to glorify a browser with rather wimpish extensions has got me thinking you’re all throwing out the baby and embracing the bathwater. … but I also don’t understand electing a retard president so maybe I’m just way out of touch.