274636 - History should store referer info

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 128398

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Patrice Levesque]

As browser history - from the beginning of Time - appears as an underexploited
gem, I think it could be bettered by storing the referer (previous visited page)
along with each history entry.  That way, the history could be rendered
"tree-like" instead of a plain list.  Web statistic packages already compute
that to know the browsing patterns of visitors - I think users might find that
useful too.

Maybe browsing in a tree-fashioned way should be accomplished by an extension,
but I think that the problem core (storing the referer) belongs to the browser.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

I'm pretty sure it already does (on the trunk), thus the How'd I Get Here
extension at http://www.squarefree.com/extensions/high/

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Already fixed on the trunk.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128398 ***