CFA/History-Research

General browser capabilities

In the following table:

P = available through Primary UI (menu items, toolbar)
S = available through Secondary UI (anywhere else)
blank = not available
# = see item in Notes
The browsers listed are, in order: Firefox 2, Camino, Flock, iCab, IE7, Maxthon, Netscape, OmniWeb, Opera, Safari, SeaMonkey, and Shiira.

	Fx2	Cam	Flo	iCa	IE7	Max	Net	Omn	Ope	Saf	Sea	Shi
Back/Forward	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/P
Home (Toolbar/Menu)	P/P	-/P	P/P	P/P	P/P	P/-	P/P	-/-	-/-	-/P	P/P	-/P
Most recent x pages	P	P	P	S	S	S	P	P	-	P	-	S
Recently closed x tabs	P	P	P	-	-	-	S	-	P	-	-	-
View History	P	S²	P	P	S	P	P	P	P	S²	P	P
Search	S	S	S	-	-	S	S	S	S	S	S	-
Advanced search	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	S⁶	-
Sort: Date + Site	S	-	S	-	-	-	S	-	-	-	-	-
Sort: Site	S	S	S	S	S	-	S	S	S	S	S	-
Sort: Date	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
Sort: Most visited	S	-³	S	-	S	-	S	S	S⁴	-	S	-
Sort: Last visited	S	S	S	-	S	-	S	-	-	-	S	-
Clear item	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	-⁷
Clear selected items	-	S	-	S	-	-	-	S	S	S	S	-
Clear all items	S¹	P	S¹	S	S	S	S	P	S⁵	P	S⁵	P
Clear item(s) and add to privacy blocklist	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Privacy settings to stop all sites from being recorded in history	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	P	-	P
Privacy setting to stop specified (blocklisted) sites from being recorded in history	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Privacy "Start/Stop" toggle to prevent all sites from being recorded in history	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	P⁸	-	P⁸
Privacy setting to clear history on exit	S	-	S	S	-	-	S	S	-	-	-	-
Other History-related privacy settings	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Taggable History	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Autotagging/categorizing of History	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Add to Bookmarks (directly from History)	S	-	S	-	S	S	S	-	-	-	S	-
Integration with an external service (sync, whatever)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Social features?	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Clickstream recording	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Data mining and visualization tools	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Very roundabout way of doing this - Prefs > Privacy > Private Data Settings > Uncheck non-history stuff > OK > Clear Private Data Now
History is accessed through bookmarks manager
There is a "Top 10 List"
"Popularity" - I think this is total number of visits to a site
This is simply "Select All" > Delete
Same as regular search
There's a command there, but it doesn't work
Same as the privacy settings

TBD