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David McRitchie

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Aug 29, 2008, 8:16:38 AM8/29/08
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Enhanced History Manager extension -- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/420

This is a great extension, and you will find that it is at least mostly built-in to Firefox 3. You get the History sidebar with
Ctrl+H (History), and you get the expanded History layout of Organize Bookmarks with Ctrl+Shift+H (Places Library - Manage History).

What you are missing is to be able to search on either title or location, but in Fx3 you are searching on BOTH title and location.

You can still double-click on any column to sort by that column, and of course, you have your search from either listing. You can
rearrange columns by dragging the column header.

In addition because both Bookmarks and History are in the places.sqlite database you can access additional columns by right-clicking
on column heading and choosing among the following: Name, Location, Visit Date (last), Visit Count -- the other items are for
bookmarks Keyword, Tags, Description, Added (date), Last Modified.

The columns you had with EHM, which you may not have been aware because they are selected from small icon at the rightmost column
are Title, Location, Last Visited, *First Visited, *Hostname, Visit Count, *Referrer -- you won't see the ones with asterisks in
Fx3. Perhaps "SQLite Manager" extension might be able to build up a table with the missing columns information.

The functionality that I need is built-in to Fx3, but the recent comments for the extension with low ratings are uncalled for,
it pulls down the scores for what is still an excellent extension for those not yet on Fx3. A low score because an extension is
not updated to Fx3 is insulting to the author, and to the reviewer. Personally I would prefer to add comments without a score
if they involve usage. Many other extensions that get knocked in ratings/comments actually have updates that only work in a new
version and may be indicated as such in the long description and/or the authors own site all of which should be read before
installing an extension anyway.
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HTH,
David McRitchie, extensions I use are briefly documented on my site
Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm

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