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by VorticonCmdr 3900 days ago
Hi,

I don't use a extra full-text search for my browser history. Why? Because usually searching the headlines and/or urls is enough.

In order to fulltext-search all the webpages one has to crawl and index all the pages first. While crawling might be easy (since you visit the pages anyways), indexing and then searching is a bit more tricky.

One idea for a useful homebrew plugin might be to make use of Google Custom Search. Since Google is quite good at crawling, indexing and searching this might be something to look into.

I am interested if you come up with something useable.

Regards, Valentin