Show HN: Browser extension to (fuzzy) search bookmarks, history and open tabs (opens in new tab)

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16 pointsFannon4y ago10 comments

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canada_dry4y ago· 2 in thread

Tried it out. Works well. The key feature I was hoping for was to limit searches by age e.g. less than 6m old, greater than 2y old.

Is this a feature that's available or planned?

FannonOP4y ago

Thanks for the feedback!

How would you define age here? Last time visited?

I have thought about introducing a way to increase score based on "recentness". There is one problem with the history in general, though: It's quite expensive to load a big browsing history so the plugin will only get a fixed amount of history for a few days back. This is configurable, but I don't think it would scale back as long ago as you're hinting at.

canada_dry4y ago

Just filtering on date last visited would be great. But, also having the ability to filter on date added would be useful.

This FF addon [i] uses the dateAdded attribute to sort the bookmarks, I wonder if it's at all relevant/helpful?

[i] https://github.com/heftig/sort-bookmarks/blob/70ffcbfb0cda73...

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SailingSperm4y ago· 1 in thread

Nice looking tool! though personally don't like installing extensions requiring these permissions. Kinda surprised Chrome's newish feature of tab list/search doesn't even do some ultra basic fuzzy search!

FannonOP4y ago

Thanks! What permission exactly does trouble you? I guess the tab permission is a bit unusual. However, with the Manifest V3, the extension couldn't make any outside calls anyway without explicit permission to do so (and this isn't the case).

The reason for the tab permission is not just to index them, but to also to merge bookmarks and history with open tabs. If you go to a bookmark, you've already opened it will just switch to the tab.

chanpatorikku4y ago

Looks to be helpful to be able to search history and bookmark.

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