I would like to have such an extension. Would anyone be interested to create one, or if not, could anyone give me some tips on implementation?
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Description:
The extension aims to produce a history that matters, not including any trivial pages visited.
I used to use Private Browsing for visiting trivial pages, but the disadvantage is that private windows/tabs are not kept in sessions.
The extension is supposed to behave in either of the 2 ways:
- Aggressive mode: History is not recorded by default; only by clicking an button (similar to the Bookmark button) is a page recorded in history. These historified pages (specified by URL) are automatically recorded in history when visited hereafter.
- Moderate mode: History is recorded by default. Users can specify certain tabs (and tabs derived from them) to not be recorded in history, in a togglable way. These unhistorified tabs can be labeled with, say, underscores or tab color.
Thus creating a clean history.
By history, I also mean URLs entered in Address Bar.
Question:
How can an extension prevent recording of history and resume recording when needed to?
Personal experience on creating Firefox extensions: None.