What I Want
Quite often, when I’m browsing the web, I’ll stay at the same site for quite a long time, clicking “next” successively to get to the next page of some online article. An example of this is at Peter Norvig’s Design Patterns site, where he has the slides from a talk he has given online. I was reading this site earlier.
There are 76 slides in this talk.
When I got to the end, I wanted to return to the site I was at previously, which had linked me to Peter’s site in the first place. What were my options? Clicking my “back” button 76 times? Even with mouse gestures that didn’t appeal. Luckily Firefox has a drop-down menu that allows me to skip back in chunks of ten, but even so, it took me 8 clicks to return to where I was before.
I want a “super-back” feature. This shouldn’t be too difficult. Basically, when I hold down Shift (or whatever) and click “back”, it should jump to the last page I was viewing outside the current domain. So, since Peter’s site is at norvig.com, my “super-back” would jump back 76 pages to the first page in my history not hosted at norvig.com.
I think this is very simple, and a good idea.
Will someone write me a Firefox extension that does this?