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You are definitley right that it might expire. So far never had an issue with it though. And yes this only works if you know some 'keywords' that are part of t
by tharkun__ 5y ago
You are definitley right that it might expire. So far never had an issue with it though.
And yes this only works if you know some 'keywords' that are part of the URL for example, page title etc. It definitely doesn't really work for random personal stuff that you want to remember for a long time. I do use bookmarks for that actually. But I usually don't use the actual bookmarks, but Firefox takes the bookmarks into account when searching. It sort of "cements" it, saves it from expiring :)
I never actually use the actual history UI. I literally just type into the location bar and let it find what I need. Not sure what the default settings are any longer and whether history always comes before search suggestions or if that's a setting I changed, but it very much enables this too.
I'm taking this mostly in the context of frequently-ish visited stuff or stuff that's not 'too far into the history' that it's been purged (except for what I mentioned above about bookmarks I do make, but I don't organize them very well). It's definitely mostly for work stuff, though same also applies for frequently visited personal sites, like say Hackernews. Since I watch Netflix more on the TV "n<ENTER>" nowadays goes to Hackernews :)