Most Visited and History Lists

When you go to your Bookmarks, you see two more ways to browse sites that you’ve been to before—“Most visited” and History. The Droid 2 keeps track of sites you’ve visited, and puts these two lists together based on that. They’re great ways, in addition to Bookmarks, to head back to sites you’ve visited before without having to type—or even remember—the web address.

To see the “Most visited” list, tap the “Most visited” button at the top of the Bookmarks screen. To see the History list, tap the History button .

Note

The “Most visited” and History lists don’t give you the option of viewing sites as thumbnails, only as lists.

These lists work much like the Bookmarks list—tap the site you want to visit. You’ll notice one difference between these lists and the Bookmarks list: The sites all have stars to the right of them, some red, some gray. A red star indicates that the site is on your Bookmarks list. Tapping a gray star adds that site to your Bookmarks (and turns the star red). To remove a site from your Bookmarks list, tap a red star. It turns gray, and the site gets removed from your Bookmarks list.

The History list shows you not just sites you’ve visited today, but yesterday, five days ago, a month ago, and even before a month ago. Rather than show you all the sites you visited before today, the Droid 2 shows the day (Yesterday, “5 days ago”, and so on), with an arrow next to it. Tap the arrow, and you see the full list of sites for that day.

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Just as with Bookmarks, you can edit and manage the “Most visited” list. Hold your finger on the site you want to edit or manage, and a menu appears, like the one you see for managing Bookmarks.

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The lists are nearly identical, with a few minor differences:

You manage the History list just like you do the Bookmarks and “Most visited” lists. Hold your finger on the site you want to edit or manage, and a menu appears like the one you see for managing Bookmarks or “Most visited”.

There’s one thing you can do to your History list that you can’t do with either the Bookmarks list or the “Most visited” list: You can clear your entire history. If you feel guilty about visiting sites for any reason, you can get rid of them all. While in the History list, press the Menu key, and then select “Clear history”. Your slate will be wiped clean.

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