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How to view browser history?

asked 2017-01-28 16:30:06 +0300

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updated 2017-01-28 16:31:06 +0300

Tanghus gravatar image

I've seen a lot of post here about viewing the the browser history, and I have searched for 'browser history', 'history view' and I can't find anything in the browser or the browser settings.

It's probably pretty obvious once you know it, but I'm lost for now...

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Interesting. I thought there were no way to see history, aside from opening a new tab and starting to type something.

Eagerly waiting for an answer as well.

ScumCoder ( 2017-01-28 18:02:07 +0300 )edit

anyone knows if the function was available on the v1 of sfos?

cemoi71 ( 2017-01-30 10:28:19 +0300 )edit

Can you point us on some of these "lot of post"?

Sthocs ( 2017-01-30 15:52:51 +0300 )edit

@Sthocs search for »browser history«.

Tanghus ( 2017-02-01 10:43:44 +0300 )edit

Ok, well if you read those posts, there are explanations on how they manage to see the history. Apparently the behaviour has changed a bit since 2014 but you can ask more info directly to the followers of these topics.

Sthocs ( 2017-02-01 12:37:12 +0300 )edit

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answered 2017-01-30 15:12:04 +0300

rainemak gravatar image

updated 2017-01-30 15:13:50 +0300

We list 20 recently visited pages in history view that have highest visited count (2.1.0 feature). Maybe we listed more at early days of Sailfish, don't recall by heart.

If you're thinking about desktop Firefox's "Show All history" view, we haven't had that kind history management view.

Btw, no need to open a new tab to see history, entering text to the url field will filter history as well.

-Raine

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means that by current release (2.0.5.6) there is no explicit history.
Comes soon by the 2.1.x
Not better as answer?
Many thanks anyway for communicate it :-)

cemoi71 ( 2017-01-30 15:17:44 +0300 )edit

It is already explicit providing 20 entries. With Sailfish OS version 2.0.5.6 or older visited count was not taken into account.

rainemak ( 2017-01-30 17:22:31 +0300 )edit

@rainemak you mention 'history view'. what do you mean with that?

Tanghus ( 2017-01-30 19:08:07 +0300 )edit
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OK, I get it. Tap the URL and enter a space should then give you the last 20 visited URLs? Except it doesn't.I can't really see the logic used in that usecase.

Tanghus ( 2017-01-30 19:17:20 +0300 )edit
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that have highest visited count

This is not what I get. Websites that I visited once about a yearago keep popping up as the first result, pushing down those which I visit every day. E.g. I can start typing "together", and instead of TJC as the first search proposal I get gitlab.com (because its HTML title says "code, test and deploy together" - or at least said when I visited it that single time about 1,5 years ago).

ScumCoder ( 2017-01-30 22:14:15 +0300 )edit
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answered 2018-06-06 18:14:40 +0300

DrYak gravatar image

A low-level command-line (FingerTerm or SSH) alternative until the interface adds a Show All history (currently missing, according to rainemak 's answer) :

  • The browser history is stored in .local/share/org.sailfishos/sailfish-browser/sailfish-browser.sqlite
  • you can open it using sqlite3 cli tool
  • the history is found inside the browser_history table
  • (use command .tables to get the list of tables)
  • (use command .schema browser_history to get the columns).

Sample of a request to get the 10 most recent visits to website containing wikipedia in the URL (while completely ignoring the visited_count column, unlike the autosuggestion built into the app that factors in highest visited) :

select url from browser_history where url regexp '.*wikipedia.*' order by date desc limit 10;

You can also use like '%wikipeda%' rather than regexp '.*wikipedia.*' if you're more comfortable with wildcards patterns rather than with regular expressions.

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thanks, works perfectly!

melg01 ( 2018-06-07 11:46:17 +0300 )edit
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answered 2017-01-31 08:02:18 +0300

DarkTuring gravatar image

@Tanghus in order to get history it will be filtered by whatever letter you type first in the search or enter address field, so if i type a it will start listing all the urls i accessed historically that contain the letter a starting in it.

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answered 2019-07-20 10:57:05 +0300

ds1979 gravatar image

Hello! I still think, that this question is not resolved. A couple of things with the history: 1. A new user will not think about typing a space character to find the "full" history. My solution: In the New Tab URL/bookmark-view: add a button for the last 20 pages, if you need to crop the list, and show them in a new window.

  1. If one types a space character for the history, one won't get the last viewed pages, but something else. I have tested this thoroughly. My solution: take a look at (1) ;-)

Jolla, please check this!

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