Firefox History Block – Add-on to Block websites to be added to firefox history

9 Jul
2009

Just like me, many of the users prefer to keep a history of the websites. The reason being quite simple: it makes it possible to access the websites fastly. Plus it assists you in finding websites that they had opened in the past. That is one kind of users. Another kind of users, which is the specific audience of this post happen to be the one who like to keep things private and place emphasis on privacy, thus not wanting to add websites to the history. One more thing this post focuses on Firefox Browser.

Get hold of the Firefox History Block add-on. What this add-on allows you to do is that you can specify domains,urls or websites that you do not want to add to the Firefox history. This add-on not only allows you to add sites that you want to block. It also allows you to unblock websites in the same way by just specifying the domain names. Here is how it is described by Mozilla

This tool will allow the user to specify a list of hosts to be blocked from the history tab, the recently closed tabs list, and the download manager (ctrl+j). HistoryBlock is a Firefox Add-on that works comparably to the newly created Chrome’s Incognito mode, but without the necessity of switching modes while using the browser (or opening in new windows, etc).

However the bad side to this is that it does not provide a way to manage the list of blocked websites in a more easy and convenient way. No way currently exists to display the list of blocked websites and domains.Get the add-on from the Official Mozilla Firefox add-on repository. Here is how to use it

  • Click the “Options” button under the addon and add a hostname to be blocked.
  • Alternatively, now you can simply right-click on a page and hit “Block This!” to automatically add the hostname and/or subdomain of the current page to the blacklist.

BlockHistoryAddon

Download Firefox History Block add0n.


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