Historia
Control your Browsing History for Privacy and Performance
Historia: Control Browsing History for Privacy and Performance
Historia is a small multi-process Firefox add-on that enables you to control your browsing history by filtering and deleting private or unwanted history items. It also allows you to clear host history and cookies, resulting in better privacy and improved browser performance.
Add-on stats
Weekly download count: 10
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: High risk impact 
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- activeTab
- downloads
- history
- idle
- notifications
- storage
- cookies
- <all_urls>
Size: 78.37K
URLs: Website
Ranking
# 6,578
Other platforms
Not available on Chrome
Not available on Android
Not available on Edge
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Add-on summary
Historia is a small multi-process extension to improve browsing Privacy by filtering and deleting private or unwanted history items, plus clear Host history and cookies. Slimmer history database should also help with browser Performance.
Note: None of my extensions contain any tracking, advertising or privacy infringement.
Features
- Use Patterns to prevent items appearing in the browser History
- Regular Expression capability to Filter Patterns
- Search and Delete History items by keyword
- Delete History items by Date
- Auto-Delete History (older than set number of days)
- Delete Host History from Toolbar
- Delete Host Cookies from Toolbar
- Filter Host History from Toolbar (add host to the filter list)
- Delete Recent History Preference added to select how many hours
- Import/Export Preferences
- Help Guide
- Maybe adding option to delete Download History (download search API is buggy) The API is due to be fixed for FF57
- Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history: Used only to export Preference
- Access browsing history: Used to delete history items
- Display notifications to you: Used to inform users
- Access your data for all websites: Used to delete cookies for all websites
User reviews
by geeknik, 2023-12-30
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Historia requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Historia has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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