With the increasing amount of short links and referring links on the Internet, the browsing history in Safari is starting to become useless. This has been the case for shortened links for a while, but recently I noticed that search results clicked on Google aren’t correctly resolved in the browser history, either (see the above picture).
Google’s Chrome browser and many Twitter clients are able to correctly resolve and show redirected URL the user intended to visit, so why can’t Safari?
Kinda defeats the purpose of a browser history, doesn’t it.
Update: Hurrah, we found a Safari plugin that fixes the problem!
The Detox Safari Extension does indeed only unwrap Twitter links. Another thing to understand is, that these extensions cannot alter the browsing history after the fact. They do however help correctly resolve any links from then on.
I know this isn't available for anything but Twitter and a few other services so far, but in the end the solution has to come from Apple itself, as other browsers have no problem unwrapping URLs before logging them in the browser history.
I hope this helps.
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LikeI understand that they can't alter the history after the fact, but I would love an extension that just does the same thing for Google links as this one does for Twitter… simply unwraps the URLs before logging them in the browser history so that the history is intelligible rather than utterly useless as it is now.
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LikeI never noticed before, but now it's going to bug me every time I look at my history. So, thanks for that. ;)
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LikeAt your service :)
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