**Better History: Enhance File and Download Management with a Powerful
Chrome Extension
**
**Introduction**
Looking for a comprehensive solution to effectively manage and
browse
your browsing history? Say goodbye to the limitations of Chrome's built-in history viewer and say hello to Better History. This top-rated Chrome extension for file and download management has received an impressive rating of 4.08 out of 5 and positive reviews from users worldwide. In this article, we will explore the outstanding features of Better History, delve into user feedback, and provide insights into why it is highly regarded.
**Key Features of Better History**
Better History offers a range of features that enhance file and download management, boosting productivity and efficiency. Let's take a closer look at some of its key features:
1. **Effortless History Navigation**: Easily jump between days and hours with just a click, allowing for quick access to specific browsing sessions.
2. **Seamless Deletion**: Have full control over removing specific visits, hours, or entire days from your history, ensuring a clutter-free and organized browsing experience.
3. **Advanced Keyword Search**: Search your history by keywords or individual domain visits, making it easy to locate specific pages or track your browsing habits.
4. **Unified View of Visits and Downloads**: Merge your visits and downloads into a single, easy-to-navigate view, simplifying your browsing history management and providing a holistic understanding of your online activities.
5. **Regular Expression Searching**: Perform complex and customizable searches with support for regular expression searching, perfect for users who require precise and specific search queries.
6. **Dark Mode**: Enjoy a darker interface option that enhances readability, reduces eye strain, and allows for extended usage without discomfort.
7. **Context-Menu Integration**: Leverage context menus to search your history by page title or URL, streamlining the search process and highlighting matches for easy identification. The extension also provides right-click options to search for highlighted text on a page or within a specific site's domain.
**User Feedback and Reviews**
Let's take a look at what users have to say about Better History:
- Benedek Nagy praises Better History for its substantial improvements over Chrome's built-in history viewer, particularly highlighting the ability to browse history by date and the seamless deletion feature.
- Thriverist α expresses gratitude for the extension, emphasizing its usefulness for developers.
- Dmytro Korolkov describes Better History as a great plugin that is genuinely useful.
- Carl-Henrik Blomqvist expresses satisfaction with the extension's functionality, highlighting its usefulness.
- Ysis Sodré finds Better History to be a very useful extension.
While there are a few negative reviews, the overwhelmingly positive feedback from users who find Better History to be an essential tool for efficient file and download management overshadow them. Users appreciate the features and functionality that Better History offers.
**Conclusion**
With exceptional features and positive user reviews, it's no wonder that Better History has earned its high rating. This Chrome extension offers a comprehensive solution for managing and browsing your browsing history effectively. Whether you're a developer, an avid internet user, or simply seeking better organization, Better History is a must-have extension for Chrome. Experience the benefits of improved file and download management by installing Better History today.
*Disclaimer: The aggregate rating and user reviews mentioned in this article are based on publicly available information at the time of writing. Individual experiences may vary.*
Better History adds more controls to manage and browse your history.
You can quickly reference your history by jumping between days and hours.
Deleting a day, hour, or individual visit is painless.
Some users may find the interface overwhelming.
Limited customization options.
3.95
259 reviews
21 Reviews For This Extension
Reviewed by inan pc - 2025-02-03 12:22:23
Thanks Worked well for me .....
Reviewed by Edgars Kursitis - 2025-01-26 09:49:01
Cant select and delete multiple records from single site
Reviewed by John L - 2025-01-22 00:29:59
Much better than the Chrome rubbish built in history page, which keeps jumping back to top after I finally drag it all the way down to find what I want.
Reviewed by Tom Marino - 2025-01-09 20:30:08
Just wondering why the delete button says "More From Site", instead of "Delete". A novice user like YT might not realize that pressing the button will delete the record.
Reviewed by Fabio N. - 2024-12-05 01:05:56
My use case: I usually want to find some item in history in order to see what other sites I visited during that session. This extension is good enough, but I would like to have the ability to quickly jump from an entry I found with search to the view where you see that entry in the entire timeline. Like, "jump to that day".
Also, search is not very good:
1. I can't find the Wikipedia article "Ontology (information science)" by running the query "information ontology". Does it only search by exact match? Well, developers today know better. Not "better" history - Chrome's native search uses tokenization and finds that.
2. Better History only finds one entry for a URL, the latest one. But Chrome deliberately keeps many entries for a URL if they were visited in different days! E.g. you may visit a URL yesterday and today, and Chrome will save both of the visits, and they are both searchable. Better History only shows one - this is not good, and not "better" history.
Two UI points:
1. When I press Ctrl+H, I want the search bar to be focused so that I could search immediately what I want without using my mouse. This is done in Chrome's native history. Again, not "better" history.
2. There is also no calendar by month to move metween dates quickly. There are a lot of calendar components in the web - don't reinvent the wheel, just use one of them.
Good luck to the author, though, I saw some bugs fixed since I started using this. I'll improve the rating if I see the mentioned issues resolved.
Reviewed by nl8 - 2024-12-02 12:51:27
Apart from working as intended, its a really nice UI.
Only thing missing is options that allow deleting the day (completely) or even all (without going to the original history page to do so) - while that could be achieved using search, its kinda cumbersome and cannibalizes the value of the extenion.
Reviewed by Pseudonym - 2024-11-29 08:19:08
nice UI and UX
Reviewed by Tanmoy Roy - 2024-11-27 19:28:42
Nice extension, just got one feature request: in the Activity section, is it possible to add a filter for Devices so that I can check history specific to my devices like mobile, laptop etc.?
Reviewed by James Araali-Kabyanga - 2024-11-24 16:58:10
Every time I need to use Better History I have to move to and click into the search bar. Why? Why can't it just auto-default to the search bar?
Reviewed by Richald John - 2024-11-14 16:26:00
chinese please
Reviewed by John Anderson - 2024-02-03 09:56:11
Can't change date format, we're not all americans, with a backwards date
Reviewed by n0099 - 2023-12-09 18:19:47
plz fix xss in `<title>` of each history entry: https://i.imgur.com/tCFciOV.png
Reviewed by Noah Gregory - 2023-12-04 20:07:58
All HTML in history entries is render as HTML and not escaped. At best, this is a bug, at worst this is a security vulnerability. Given that the developer has not updated this in almost two years, I have little faith this bug will be fixed. The bright side is that at least CSP blocks the ability for self-XSS, at least in my initial testing.
Reviewed by Heath Brown - 2023-11-25 16:04:32
Just wish it was open-source and on GitHub
Reviewed by Allan Cen - 2023-11-21 16:53:14
5 stars!!...if only the search function was actually working fully.
The "Search deeper button" does not exist and the histories that I know for sure should be there, just couldn't be found!
"Your last 10,000 visits are used for a fast, initial search. To search deeper, visit the bottom of the last page of results and click the Search deeper button."
Reviewed by Jeff Kelly - 2023-11-20 12:47:46
One of my favorite plugins. Great for reviewing time entries at work.
Reviewed by Erick - 2023-11-15 19:49:43
Never had an issue as far as I know
Reviewed by Daniele - 2023-11-05 16:00:22
The search filter not works on select date, it always filter the full history :(
Reviewed by Lyubomir - 2023-10-18 15:39:14
Very good.
Reviewed by Drasko Divic - 2023-10-01 09:26:08
It looks really good and there are a lot of different options! Especially the so-called Dark fashion and historical times. I leave it installed and study!
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21 Reviews For This Extension
Thanks Worked well for me .....
Cant select and delete multiple records from single site
Much better than the Chrome rubbish built in history page, which keeps jumping back to top after I finally drag it all the way down to find what I want.
Just wondering why the delete button says "More From Site", instead of "Delete". A novice user like YT might not realize that pressing the button will delete the record.
My use case: I usually want to find some item in history in order to see what other sites I visited during that session. This extension is good enough, but I would like to have the ability to quickly jump from an entry I found with search to the view where you see that entry in the entire timeline. Like, "jump to that day". Also, search is not very good: 1. I can't find the Wikipedia article "Ontology (information science)" by running the query "information ontology". Does it only search by exact match? Well, developers today know better. Not "better" history - Chrome's native search uses tokenization and finds that. 2. Better History only finds one entry for a URL, the latest one. But Chrome deliberately keeps many entries for a URL if they were visited in different days! E.g. you may visit a URL yesterday and today, and Chrome will save both of the visits, and they are both searchable. Better History only shows one - this is not good, and not "better" history. Two UI points: 1. When I press Ctrl+H, I want the search bar to be focused so that I could search immediately what I want without using my mouse. This is done in Chrome's native history. Again, not "better" history. 2. There is also no calendar by month to move metween dates quickly. There are a lot of calendar components in the web - don't reinvent the wheel, just use one of them. Good luck to the author, though, I saw some bugs fixed since I started using this. I'll improve the rating if I see the mentioned issues resolved.
Apart from working as intended, its a really nice UI. Only thing missing is options that allow deleting the day (completely) or even all (without going to the original history page to do so) - while that could be achieved using search, its kinda cumbersome and cannibalizes the value of the extenion.
nice UI and UX
Nice extension, just got one feature request: in the Activity section, is it possible to add a filter for Devices so that I can check history specific to my devices like mobile, laptop etc.?
Every time I need to use Better History I have to move to and click into the search bar. Why? Why can't it just auto-default to the search bar?
chinese please
Can't change date format, we're not all americans, with a backwards date
plz fix xss in `<title>` of each history entry: https://i.imgur.com/tCFciOV.png
All HTML in history entries is render as HTML and not escaped. At best, this is a bug, at worst this is a security vulnerability. Given that the developer has not updated this in almost two years, I have little faith this bug will be fixed. The bright side is that at least CSP blocks the ability for self-XSS, at least in my initial testing.
Just wish it was open-source and on GitHub
5 stars!!...if only the search function was actually working fully. The "Search deeper button" does not exist and the histories that I know for sure should be there, just couldn't be found! "Your last 10,000 visits are used for a fast, initial search. To search deeper, visit the bottom of the last page of results and click the Search deeper button."
One of my favorite plugins. Great for reviewing time entries at work.
Never had an issue as far as I know
The search filter not works on select date, it always filter the full history :(
Very good.
It looks really good and there are a lot of different options! Especially the so-called Dark fashion and historical times. I leave it installed and study!
Great but it isn't working right now