firefox-history-sucks.md

Fuck. Firefox's history UI is so fucking bad that this is actually fucking better:

: user@debian:~; sqlite3 places.sqlite 
SQLite version 3.7.13 2012-06-11 02:05:22
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
sqlite> .mode column
sqlite> select title, url, visit_count, datetime(last_visit_date/1000000, 'unixepoch') from moz_places order by last_visit_date desc limit 100;

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Even 5 years later it's still garbage.

I came here to spit as well. What a shame because the rest of the browser is great.

is there a reason for it being so shockingly unusable? it doesn't just look bad, it is genuinely difficult to use.

its terrible

Literally googled "firefox history sucks" out of frustration and this was the top result.

Literally googled "firefox history sucks" out of frustration and this was the top result.

I googled this too, the solution I've found: "Better History" an addon for Firefox

Literally googled "firefox history sucks" out of frustration and this was the top result.

Ikr, it's so validating isn't it

I use this too: "Undo Close Tab" an addon for Firefox

Got here by the same means everyone is. Utterly fucking useless history section. Firefox always fucking sucks. Never fixes anything that actually helps people. Maybe this will help someone: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mozilla_history_view.html