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Short version

Can I modify the forward-button in Firefox to access multiple different forward-locations?

Problem description

Suppose I am currently visiting website A. Now, I perform the following sequence of actions:

  • visit website B
  • click the back button in the navigation toolbar to get back to A
  • visit website C
  • click the back button to get back to A again

This browsing behavior creates some kind of tree where A is the root and B, C are nodes on the same depth.
Now, the forward button only enables me to visit website C. Accessing B is not longer possible, since the forward button only keeps a linear history.

Question

Is there any way to allow me to visit the whole tree of forward pages? Like a dropdown menu for the forward button (when currently visiting A), that shows all the visited locations of the next depth level in my tree:

A - C
  - B
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  • Have you try to use history option in FF? It's not back and forward but you will see site B May 10, 2015 at 19:16
  • @RomeoNinov I will see site B, but it will be mixed with all the other sites I have visited. I actively use >20 tabs at the same time, so my history contains a lot of recently visited sites. The nice thing about forward and back is, that it is ordered and individual for each tab
    – Slizzered
    May 10, 2015 at 20:06
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    A simple search for “firefox history tree” listed this: Session History Tree. Could be what you’re looking for.
    – Daniel B
    May 11, 2015 at 9:54
  • Can't you right-click (or press and hold) on the Forward/Back buttons, to see a history either way? You can in Chrome and IE.
    – paradroid
    May 11, 2015 at 10:14
  • @paradroid It does show a history, but it is linear. I can see the last few pages and the next "forward" pages of the last taken branch. For my example, I could see C and C', but all that belonged to B is pruned
    – Slizzered
    May 11, 2015 at 13:06

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A Google search for “firefox history tree” lead me to this Firefox Extension: Session History Tree. I haven’t tried it myself but it could be what you’re looking for.

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(Images taken from AMO)

Unfortunately, it seems this extension is no longer maintained, the last commit on the GitHub repository was almost two years ago.

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  • The addon feels a bit clunky to use (it is hidden 1 layer behind the regular back button) and would do well with a LITTLE added functionality. But it appears stable and is still working well. So maybe it is still maintained, but considered "feature complete"...
    – Slizzered
    May 16, 2015 at 17:50
  • Anyway: This is good and pretty much what I was looking for. Enjoy the bounty!
    – Slizzered
    May 16, 2015 at 17:51
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Here are a couple of add-ons that can help :

History in Threads (last update March 8, 2015)

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FromWhereToWhere (last update May 5, 2014)

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  • These addons are helpful indeed. Unfortunately not exactly what I was looking for. Thanks anyway!
    – Slizzered
    May 16, 2015 at 17:52

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