Improved History

Firefox's history tab was always the most annoying thing to deal with. And even if it has been improved over the years, is still an unpleasant feature to use. Luckily, there are solutions that can help you access the browsing history quicker. Improved History is a straightforward extension that offers a new layout and a swift way to reach it.

After the add-on is installed, a small analog clock icon will appear on the extension bar. A single click on the icon will cause the history tab to pop up. The tab will always display the current date and hour when opened, along with the search results up to that point.

One thing that looks off regarding the interface is the way the days advance, and the day/night symbols and hours. To be more precise, if you want to scroll through the past days, you'll have to use the right-side arrows, which feels counterintuitive. However, you can get used to that in a couple of minutes, so it cannot be counted as an issue.

When you open the UI you can notice that there are three tabs located near the upper-left corner. The first one is Activity, and this one opens by default. The second tab is Search and allows you to execute targeted searches for older history entries.

As for the last tab, even if it's called Settings, there are no settings there except for the Clear History function. Clearing the history from here should result in a complete deletion of the information. Sadly, during our tests, this button had no effect, even after multiple clicks.

Improved History is a neat extension that solves the problem with Firefox's history access. Besides being unable to clear the entire history, that can still be performed, daily, from the Activity tab.