208795 - history search in Firefox lacks options

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 59173

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Toland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

in regular mozilla, after loading history (ctrl + h), ctrl+f loads up a window
that has advance options in searching such as title, url, dates, etc. i was
unable to find such a tool in Mozilla Firebird 0.6. Am I missing something or
was it remove?

the find tool in firebird is too basic to be much use. it only searches titles.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open History (ctrl + h)
2. Open history finder (ctrl + f)
Actual Results:  
a finder with options should've popped up.

Expected Results:  
nothing

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Phoenix

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Confirming and recommending WONTFIX.  This would be more suited to an extension
as most users don't/won't use it.

Comment 3

[Toland]

i would like to note that currently firebird/phoenix's history search is way too
limited. only being able to search through the title i believe defeats the
purpose of having a good history log.

Comment 4

[Toland]

sorry, forgot to mention that the history search function in the normal mozilla
program is awesome and would love to have that imported into firebire/phoenix.

Comment 5

[Ben Ruppel]

This should be fixed.  This is basic functionality.  For instance, today I lost
a page that I knew was in the new york times.  However, firebird offers no way
to view or search the history for www.nytimes.com

In fact, I would elevate the severity of this bug.

Comment 6

[aynilove [So, Jae-yoon]]

imo, search by url is indeed, at least.

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

I think URLs should be included history quicksearches by default.  I don't think
options are necessary.

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 126621, "Search within Cached History pages".

Comment 9

[Rishi Chopra]

Just posted Bug 233773, which revives this issue for similar but different reasons.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233773

Comment 10

[Blake Ross]

Note: have to implement "or" queries to do this.

Comment 11

[Rishi Chopra]

Just bumping this bug, hoping it doesn't get lost amongst the heap.

Comment 12

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 237835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[MW]

there is an extension which revives Netscape/Mozilla History Manager
functionality for FireFox, called Enhanced History Manager
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=97504

Comment 14

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

reopening...

Comment 15

[Toland]

(In reply to comment #14)
> reopening...

did you not like the extension provided 2 posts above?

Comment 16

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

(In reply to comment #15)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > reopening...
> 
> did you not like the extension provided 2 posts above?

[e-mail]: the fact that an extension exist doesn't mean a bug is fixed
(we may want to have it "built-in").

Comment 17

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** Bug 328559 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[db]

If #328559 should be marked as a duplicate of this, this bug must also cover two more options:

1. search in/of the path, that is, for this page show_bug.cgi?id=208795
2. search in domains/subdomains

Basically, this is just aboud adding metadata. For example, if your domain contains the string 'cgi' and you search for that you don't want millions of hits on dynamic cgi-generated pages and vice versa, if the path contains 'com', you don't want millions of hits from domains in the TLD .com.