Visualize the Firefox History

I have to admit that I’m not using the Firefox history function at all and clear it – and other data – whenever I exit Firefox. Call me a little bit paranoid but I prefer it that way. Some of my friends however love their history, they use it to access websites with a few clicks instead of using the keyboard. Each to his own I’d say.

I think we can all agree that the Firefox history in the way it is displayed in the sidebar is not the optimal way of displaying information. Only the page titles are displayed and as we all know webmasters are a lazy bunch, they create websites using copy paste and some tend to use the same title for all of their pages which makes it quite difficulty to identify the correct one.

ThumbStrips visualizes the Firefox History. After installing the extension it adds a toolbar at the bottom of your Firefox screen that displays screenshots and titles of the latest websites that the user has visited. Thumbnails can be sorted as well by dragging and dropping them around. A click on a thumbnail loads the website immediately.

The Thumbstrips toolbar can be displayed and hidden by clicking on a button in the status bar or by pressing the keyboard shortcut “STRG Shift F” or “F2″.

I’d like to point out two nice features that might convince you to try this extension out. The thumbnail that is created when visiting a website records the screen position as well and if you visit that website again by clicking on that thumbnail will display that exact position again. Great for continuing reading where you stopped the last time.

The second feature is the ability to save (and obviously load) thumbstrips. This saved thumbstrips can be loaded by any user with the extension installed, lets share some, sounds nice, don’t you think ?

via Tech Malaya