The trouble with history is that it's a soup of every random page you've ever visited.
The trouble with tabs is they're a collection of web pages you at one time thought you might get back to, roughly sorted by the time in which you first opened them.
Say you browse sites A B C D E, then later you go back and browse D, then B.
History seems to be recorded as A C E D B
But recording A B C D E D B might be more cluttered, but more helpful as well. It shows you the decisions you made to browse from one thing to another.
This compaction method also seems to happen across days, destroying the list of everything you browsed on tuesday in order.
> But recording A B C D E D B might be more cluttered, but more helpful as well. It shows you the decisions you made to browse from one thing to another.
That's personally why I have been using Tree Style Tab (for about a decade now)
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
I'd expect it to be recorded as A B C D B - if it's recorded like you wrote, it becomes completely illogical. I think I'd prefer your A B C D E D B.
I find the history in Firefox much less useful, one of the few areas I find Chrome superior.
...which drags the website I clicked on to the top of my history, changing its temporal position and making me have to find the time period I was looking at before, which now looks textually different.
Really, the biggest use-case for browser history in its current form, seems to be to get people in trouble when nosy family members go peeking at it.
Kind of like tabs and bookmarks.
Speaking of sessions, none of the available OS supports this metaphor well, and the closest are Linux desktops, while still being not even close.