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1. jval43 · 1789667302 · focus · HN ↗

   Google Chrome did this in 2008. Full-text search over all visited pages, stored offline. It was very useful and I miss it.

   Nobody seems to remember it, even though it was a headline feature. Was removed in 2013, I think due to technical constraints.

   Will definitely try this.

   1. corney91 · 1789677710 · focus · HN ↗

      Now Chrome can't even remember what addresses you went to more than 90 days ago. It's such a nerfed browser.

      1. iririririr · 1789677794 · focus · HN ↗

         Still boggles my mind that people went from ridiculing people who installed Ad companies browser toolbars, to actually running their browser.

         ...And don't give me the tired "it was faster". this horse was already beaten to death and it was 110% marketing.

         1. 93po · 1789678364 · focus · HN ↗

            When chrome was literally first released it was in fact faster than IE and Firefox, by quite a lot, and had some nice features that neither had, too. But that gap didn't last for long.

            1. iririririr · 1789864970 · focus · HN ↗

               lol. it amuses me how much people are the marketing and now forces themselves to remember it wrobg.

               when it launched it was fast because it had LESS features.

         2. jval43 · 1789680917 · focus · HN ↗

            It was so much faster you could not believe it. It was a revelation and even though "degoogling" was already a thing, Chrome was so much better than the rest that you just had to use it. Tabs actually worked without crashing your PC.

            The risks were clear from day one but Google and Chrome were great to both users and devs, and it stayed like that for a long time.

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