1479441 - Log time of all visits of url in firefox browser history, not only the last visit timestamp and count

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 604295

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Murz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Build ID: 20180614143852

Steps to reproduce:

At now Mozilla Firefox logs only last timestamp of visit for specific url and visits count. There are also column "First Visit date" but in FF 60 it contains empty content.

This way of storing browser history makes per-day history useless for users - it miss large part of real visits of that days, because they are overwritten by fresh visits.


Actual results:

As example, I want to review all urls, that I visit yesterday. Yesterday in Library I was see 10 items with "Today" date - that's ok.

But today I re-visit 3 sites, so now I see only 7 items with "yesterday" date - who deleted 3 records from "yesterday"?? This is the question from most of users, because they don't understand that this urls are rewritten and moved to "today".

As result, in Firefox at now there are no way to view full browser history per date - users can see only partly history (that is not overwritten via fresh visits), that make Firefox users very confused, and make history reports useless!


Expected results:

Firefox must provide the way (build-in, or via extension) to log all url visits, without group them into one record with rewriting timestamp and increment counter.

Comment 1

[Murz]

Google Chrome and most of other browsers logs each visit of url, and provide full per-day history of visits.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

We store all the visits, but the UI doesn't show them because it groups by URI. It's a design decision that was taken in the past, history views will surely change in the future but we don't have a clear plan for that yet.