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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. TeMPOraL · 1789716814 · focus · HN ↗

      Now we have no browser capable of searching in anything - not even Firefox. I routinely try, in several browser, to find a tab among open tabs, a bookmark among open bookmarks, or a history entry (both from "omnibox" and dedicated history pane), and it never seems to find it - not by name, not by URL - until it gets a 100% unique match.

      It's like there's a timer or a cache somewhere, with aggressive limit, saying "only scan these top 100 results and then abort if it takes more than 10 ms to findf anything", or something. Making this completely useless.

      That's on top of occasional deletion of browsing history past few weeks.

      1. vbarrielle · 1789718814 · focus · HN ↗

         Have you tried searching with @tabs, @bookmarks or @history? It works reasonably well for me.

         1. TeMPOraL · 1789732076 · focus · HN ↗

            Yes. Try it regularly, against inputs I know correspond to things visited or bookmarked within last couple months. Almost never gives the actual result unless it's literal full-string match. That's why I'm complaining.

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