Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, Freeware, Browsers
Thumbstrips adds visual browsing history to your Firefox
Though not as well-known as Microsoft's Office Labs, Intuit has a similar endeavor of their own. One of its slickest apps is Thumbstrips, a Firefox addon that records your browsing history as thumbnails.
It's currently featured in the Digital Pack Rat assortment on Fashion Your Firefox, and for good reason. Thumbstrips' snapshots make locating previously viewed pages much easier. Apart from the thumbnail, the site's domain name and the approximate time it's been since your visit are also displayed.
Now that I've shown my four-year-old son how to click the little overlapping box icon to show and hide it, it's cut down drastically on questions like "Daddy, how to I get my Scooby game back?" A less frustrating browsing experience for my family members is always a welcome change.
My only complaint about Thumbstrips is its limited customization. I want to be able to display the strip on the left or right side of my display: 1280x800 gives plenty of width, but not so much height. Still, it's a definite improvement over a text-only history listing and worth the install.
If you've used thumbstrips, share your thoughts! If you're using something similar, we'd like to hear about that, too!
It's currently featured in the Digital Pack Rat assortment on Fashion Your Firefox, and for good reason. Thumbstrips' snapshots make locating previously viewed pages much easier. Apart from the thumbnail, the site's domain name and the approximate time it's been since your visit are also displayed.
Now that I've shown my four-year-old son how to click the little overlapping box icon to show and hide it, it's cut down drastically on questions like "Daddy, how to I get my Scooby game back?" A less frustrating browsing experience for my family members is always a welcome change.
My only complaint about Thumbstrips is its limited customization. I want to be able to display the strip on the left or right side of my display: 1280x800 gives plenty of width, but not so much height. Still, it's a definite improvement over a text-only history listing and worth the install.
If you've used thumbstrips, share your thoughts! If you're using something similar, we'd like to hear about that, too!
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Jacco said 10:58AM on 11-24-2008
Yeah, It´s a great app. It´s only a bit slow. I´m not a big user of it, because I save what I like to stubleupon, by that immediately bookmarking it, or I don´t like it. But if I make a mistake, it´s indeed very useful. It looks good too.
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Jash Sayani said 11:09AM on 11-24-2008
Does it download the thumbnails on opening History or does it store them in the cache...?
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Jonathan said 12:06AM on 11-25-2008
Hi Jash - I work on ThumbStrips and IntuitLabs. The thumbnails are stored in cache during the browsing session. When a new session starts a new thumbstrip is created. The last browser session is automatically stored when you close firefox but it will be overwritten when you start another session. Does that answer your question?