How do I keep specific parts of the Firefox history?

February 7, 2011 2:55 PM

Is there are Firefox addon that will allow me to keep the history for specific sites, while removing the history for every other site?

For clarity, I'm talking about the "browsing and download history" that gets removed when the clear recent history function is used.

For example, say I visit Google, and several other sites during a browsing session. When I clear the history, I want the several other sites history to be removed, but for the Google-relevant history to be kept. I can find several addons that will do the opposite - prevent a specific sites history from being kept - but I'm looking for a whitelist rather than blacklist functionality.

posted by Solomon to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Why don't you just try Private Browsing? Eveything in the PB window won't leave a history, everything in your main window will. It's shift-command-P on the mac, or under the tools menu.
posted by Oktober at 3:00 PM on February 7, 2011

Response by poster: I don't think that will work the way I want. For example, if I had Google open in the non-private browsing window, wouldn't links from Google also open in the non-private browsing window? I want the Google info to be kept, for which I'd need non-private browsing, but I wouldn't want any of the history from the other linked-to pages kept, which I'd need private browsing for.
posted by Solomon at 3:05 PM on February 7, 2011

Ahh, I get it.

Someone wrote an chrome extension for reddit that does what you want: opens links tagged "nsfw" in a private browsing window. Not sure if there's a Firefox equivalent.
posted by Oktober at 3:06 PM on February 7, 2011