I would just like to go on record as saying that just about every UI I've ever seen for managing web browsing history has been a transparent piece of junk wrt actual UX. I completely cannot fathom how all browsers everywhere (that I've used, and I've used quite a few) get it so blatantly, clearly, stunningly, obviously, terribly wrong. As if the people working on the browsers have never used it themselves.

Having said that, of course UI and UX are hard. Especially when you have some gazillions of users that you have to not piss off with arbitrary changes, even if the changes are for the better. At least, if you are in it to make money.

Some things I would like to see as possible improvements:

• History pull-down/pop-up menus are truncated these days (Chrome, Firefox). I miss the days when it was a scrolling thing. Maybe that was hell for some use cases? I don't get it, personally.
• Full histories in Chrome do not show a useful page title for Google Search interactions. How the hell can that possibly have ever come to be? Utter bare faced insanity.
• Tabbing is hell when it comes to histories. This to me is probably the most can't win thing of it all. Firefox's "Recently Closed Tabs" confuses me. I think I just want everything inlined in my history. Did they have a separate thing because their history menu doesn't scroll? Dunno. Maybe Chrome's "recently closed" vs. "recently visited" is the best thing I've seen so far?

Related is when I start typing an address into the address/search text field. I want the completions to show the root URL of a site first even if I never visited it directly, and then the various sub pages I actually visted.