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History Tree for Firefox |
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Tested and approved by Mozilla Click on an icon to read a review... |
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History Tree is a FREE SOFTWARE add-on for the Firefox web-browser. This page explains how to use History Tree with Firefox. After installing History Tree the window shown below can be opened by clicking on the Firefox "Tools
History Tree..." menu, or by dropping the History Tree button
on to your Firefox toolbar using the Firefox "View
Toolbars
Customize..." menu.
Viewing Screenshots of Visited Pages
A screenshot of every page that you visit during your browsing session can be viewed by clicking on the History Tree window's GridView button (as shown below). Screenshots of selected pages can also be viewed one at a time in TreeView (shown above) by clicking on the
button shown below each TreeView box.
Using the History Tree
The screenshot below shows History Tree's TreeView. The box shown at the top of the screenshot shows a summary of your current browsing session. Each of the other boxes represents one of the pages you have visited. The page description and the time that the page was first accessed is shown inside each box.
The second row of boxes shown in the screenshot represent the tabs that are currently open in Firefox. The box representing the currently selected Firefox tab has an orange header. Boxes representing open tabs have a yellow header and boxes representing closed tabs (not shown in the screenshot) have a blue header. This colour scheme is also used to display the GridView page descriptions.
The box with a pink background represents the page that is currently open in Firefox. Boxes with a white background represent pages that can be accessed by clicking on the Firefox history 'Back' and 'Forward' buttons. Boxes with a grey background represent pages that cannot be accessed using the 'Back' and 'Forward' buttons. These pages are referred to below as 'closed' pages.
Clicking on a
button shows a large screenshot of the associated history page.
Clicking on a
button hides the sub-tree that lies below that button. When a sub-tree is hidden the number of hidden boxes is shown inside the button. For example, if
was shown this would tell you that four boxes were hidden below. Clicking on the
button would then reveal the hidden sub-tree. Shrinking and expanding sub-trees in this way can be very useful when viewing large history trees.
Opening History Pages
The window shown below can be opened by clicking on any TreeView box or on any GridView screenshot. This window allows you to quickly view any of the pages that you have visited during your browsing session.
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Using the Control Panel
The control panel allows you to load the page history for any selected Firefox window, switch between four different history views, quickly find any page you have visited and adjust the size of the history page screenshots that you decide to view.
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Click on the arrow buttons to load the page history for the next/previous Firefox window. Click on the toggle buttons to switch between TreeView and GridView. |
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Option 1 - Shows the history for all open Firefox tabs, including the closed pages in those tabs. Option 2 - Shows the history for all open Firefox tabs, with closed pages hidden from view. Option 3 - Shows the history for the tab selected in the listbox, with all other tabs hidden. Option 4 - Shows the history for all tabs that have been closed in the selected Firefox window. |
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Click on a listbox item to show the history for the corresponding tab (as for option 3 above). The listbox shows a list of all tabs (open and closed) in the selected Firefox window, i.e. a description of the first page loaded into each tab. Open tabs are shown in black, the currently selected Firefox tab is shown in orange and closed tabs are shown in blue. |
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Use these controls to quickly find any page that you have visited during your current browsing session. Enter the phrase you want to find in the textbox, then click on the arrow buttons to find all history pages that have that phrase as part of their description. If the checkbox is ticked then page descriptions and page URL's will be searched, if its not ticked then only the page descriptions will be searched. |
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In GridView click and drag the slider to increase or decrease the size of the history page screenshots. In TreeView click and drag the slider to increase or decrease the width and height of the History Tree, i.e. increase or decrease the space between the TreeView boxes. |
Limitations
History Tree does not save history page screenshots and closed tabs when a Firefox window is closed. This means that when a Firefox window is opened History Tree will load the same set of pages as Firefox (if the tabs were saved when Firefox was closed), i.e. a chain of saved history pages will be loaded into each tab. However, the ability to save and restore the full history tree will be added to the next version of History Tree.
History page screenshots cannot be viewed until those pages have been loaded into a Firefox tab (only the page descriptions can be viewed). This is partly a consequence of not saving the screenshots and partly due to how Firefox works, since it would be impossible for any application to capture screenshots of pages that have not been loaded. This limitation becomes apparent if you choose to save your tabs when closing Firefox. For example, if you saved four tabs each containing ten pages when you closed Firefox, then when Firefox was restarted only four page images would be captured (one page image per tab). This could be rectified by visiting each page, so that History Tree could capture the screenshots.
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For Windows, Mac OS X and Linux |
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