Histree is, or soon will be, a Mozilla extension. It adds, or soon will add, a sidebar to your Mozilla Firebird web browser. This sidebar contains a tree which presents a novel view of your browsing history.
Traditional web browsers employ a linear model of a user's history, most familiarly embodied by the "back" and "forward" buttons. This model is inadequate for certain sequences of user actions. Consider the following scenario:
Clearly, what we have here is not a line, but a tree.
I have to confess, though, that I never really cared for these sourceforge-hosted pages that make it hard to find actual info about the project, so just go look at the HisTree project summary page instead.
Here are some things that may be useful for development.
build.xml
file to help with compiling
HisTree; it's in the CVS repository. Since I've been doing development for
this project on Windows, I found it convenient to make a shortcut to Ant which
has the HisTree source root directory as its starting directory, so I can
trigger a compile with one click. If you create a bookmark pointing to the
.xpi file Ant builds, you can also get one-click installation. Pretty
convenient.