About:me Firefox addon - View a visual pattern of your Internet activities

So, after the about:memory url, I started looking for more about: URI scheme options in Firefox and came across an addon which adds an “about:me” URL. This addon, "about:me", makes use of the browsing and downloading history data to give our browser usage pattern a visual representation through graphs and pie charts. Its actually pretty good. You can see a list of most visited websites, your hourly browsing pattern, kind of files you have downloaded and daily download pattern too.

It doesn’t end here. If you click on any of the graph, you’ll see a list of the items associated with the stats.

As you can see there are a few issues here.

  • For some reason, its showing the download stats of 26th March
  • I don't have an option to configure the stats.
  • I'd prefer an option to choose between hourly, daily, weekly or monthly patterns.

Since, its an experimental prototype of an upcoming firefox feature(Yep! this is what it says under the developer comments :D), I shouldn't expect much. But this comment seems to be a few months old. I wonder why it wasn't included in Firefox 4 but it indeed deservers to be an integral feature.

Install about:me addon, open "about:me" and check it out.

2 Comments

Heha (not verified)
April 13th, 2011 05:50 am
Google web history is abetter option. Provides for a detailed view of the web activity, and in better representations.
Apoorv Reddy (not verified)
April 17th, 2011 02:57 pm
Can you post on about:config ?

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