Is there a browser that supports searching through the full text of the history pages' content ? Chrome and Firefox supports only searching the titles and URLs (with their omnibars).
I'm aware that Google Desktop and the likes are capable of doing that, but if the browser omnibar (or awesomebar or whateverbar) could do that - it'd be much more convenient.
Chrome does this if you go to the History view and enter a query in the search box there.
Open the History view with Ctrl+H or by selecting it from the Spanner (Wrench) menu.
Since WorldBrain's Memex recently deprecated this feature, I went looking and discovered Falcon. Turns out, WorldBrain was a fork of Falcon anyway, according to the author.
To use, enter f + spacebar + your search terms in the browser address bar.
You can try out the free WorldBrain chrome extension. It lets you full-text search all the pages & PDFs you visited and bookmarked.
Downloadable here: www.worldbrain.io
Note: I am the founder of this project.
Complete, fulltext history search - indexes all pages browsed.
Index stored locally (only available on Mac - Linux coming soon) or cloud-based.
Free while in beta (at least as of 12 Nov 2014).
Enable this search from omnibox by typing f, space and then your search.
Like:
f bottlenose dolphin
Since Chrome & Opera both discontinued support for full-text search, here is a current extension that I found:
All Seeing Eye Chrome extension
All Seeing Eye stores your history on your local machine, instead of in the "cloud", for greater privacy/security. And it can be used in Opera with the Download Chrome extension for Opera which lets you use extensions from the Chrome Store.
I'm assuming you're not on macOS, but just for reference for those that are on macOS and want to compare browsers:
Safari does this natively. Just enter a search term in the history text box:
... and it'll search the content of the document in addition to the title and url of the site.
