Chrome’s history menu lists your most visited sites and recently closed tabs, which is different from most other browsers. Extension Recent History gives you the history menu you’re used to, listing your most recently viewed pages in a simple drop-down.
Chrome: Chromey Calculator puts all of the best Google Calculator tricks right at your fingertips, along with a helpful list of your most recent calculations and the ability to turn recent results into variables for trickier calculations.
FamilySearch, the online arm of the Family History Library, has a new beta search service that lets the public dig around to find documents and facts on their relatives and ancestors. It’s a pretty huge index of data, and it’s free.
It already features the lunar surface and a 3D version of Melbourne, and now Google Earth has added another feature to chew up chunks of your weekend: World War -II era overlays of European cities, letting you see how the layout of cities has been dramatically changed by war. [Official Google Australia Blog]
Firefox: Want to navigate your browsing history in a visual way? Voyage turns your history into a web of nodes, linked together by their connections to each other and sized based on the number of visits
Think that your browser’s private mode keeps your browsing completely private? Not so! More often than not, you’re still leaving traces of your browsing session behind, and today we’ll tell you how to get rid of them for truly private browsing.
Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension HistoryBlock prevents specific web sites from being tracked—like an always-on private browsing mode for certain domains.
Firefox only: (Win/Mac/Linux): The History Submenus extension displays your recent history in folders from the History menu—so you can quickly get back to that page you looked at yesterday.
All platforms with Firefox: Firefox extension Timelope helps you keep track of web sites you’ve visited, when you’ve visited them, and how long you spent on each site. Sign up for an account, install the extension, authorise yourself, and you’re ready to roll. Timelope works in the background and keeps track of the number of pages you visit: as you visit more pages, the number of Timelope “hops” is increased. Additionally, Timelope features a separate but useful social networking function where you can follow friends and see exactly where they’ve been online. By default, your visited web sites are private; you can make your stream public if you are interested in the social features of Timelope. Timelope is free, works wherever Firefox does.
Timelope [via Webware]
