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People who use firefox, how do you see what website you visit on a specific date? (say on September 12) for me it just shows like this (lemmy.world)
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[–] DarkCloud 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem is you have to know the approximate timeframe of your last visit - eg. If it was in the past week it may not be searchable in other categories such as *more than 3 months ago".

... likewise, if you can still find it by going to a currently open tab and hitting"back" enough times, it may not have been addded to history yet.

Firefox's history is a little idiosyncratic. One of the less polished parts of the browser.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

One of the less polished parts of the browser.

Probably because most people using Firefox disable browsing history.

[–] eager_eagle 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you can assume most people use the defaults

why would most people bother to disable the history when most don't even use ad blockers?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would imagine most people who aren't using chrome are doing so for privacy reasons.

[–] theherk 2 points 1 month ago

Unless one shares a computer user with somebody, the privacy concerns of local history are nothing compared to connected features. There are many reasons people might use a browser other than chrome. Everybody disabling history is a strange assumption.

[–] Aethr 2 points 1 month ago

What makes you say that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I don't think many people disable browsing history. Most people don't even open the settings they just use whatever is default.