History & Downloads

You can reach both screens from the browser menu:

For even quicker access, add the History button to your contextual toolbar. Open Settings > Toolbar & Layout > Customize Toolbar Buttons and move History from the Disabled section into Enabled.

The two screens use the same general layout, but they focus on different data.

The History screen shows pages WebLibre recorded during browsing.

Entries are grouped under Today, Yesterday, and calendar dates, with visit times shown in your device’s 12- or 24-hour format. Switch to Distinct URLs to group repeated visits to the same address. Each entry shows:

The visit types currently exposed in the filter menu are:

If you tap a history entry, WebLibre opens it again in a regular tab.

The entry’s More actions menu offers opening in the background, copying or sharing the address, and deleting the visit. Long-press a history suggestion under the address bar to delete it; you can undo that deletion.

The Downloads screen shows download records saved by WebLibre.

This is the list of downloads the browser remembers. It is not the same thing as browsing your whole device storage in a file manager.

If you tap a completed download entry, WebLibre opens the downloaded file with the matching system app. Unfinished downloads do not open. The list shows starting, downloading, paused, and failed states, with progress and the amount downloaded when available. Use a download’s More actions menu to pause, resume, cancel, retry, or copy and share its source link. Removing a running or paused entry also cancels that download.

While browsing, WebLibre also tells you how downloads went: a Download completed snackbar appears with an Open action when a download finishes, and failed downloads show a clear Download failed message instead of failing silently. Built-in downloads use the resolved filename. By default they go to Android’s system Downloads folder, but you can choose another under Settings > General > Downloads > Download folder. Grant Android access to that folder when prompted. This choice also applies to saved links, images, and media. If WebLibre can no longer access it, new downloads fall back to the system Downloads folder. An external download manager controls its own save location; you can remember one with Always use this app and clear that choice under Preferred download manager.

Both screens support a text filter.

To use it:

This helps when you know roughly what something was called but do not want to scroll through everything. Tap the same button to clear your query. If the field is already empty, tap it again to close search.

Both screens can filter entries by a date range.

To do that:

This is useful when you only want to review downloads from one project, or history from one specific day or week.

The History screen also lets you narrow the list by visit type.

From the filter menu, you can turn the available visit types on or off. That makes it easier to answer questions such as:

The Downloads screen does not show these history-specific visit-type filters because it is already scoped to download entries.

The filter menu on the History screen also includes container filtering, so you can review only the visits recorded in one container.

Two related behaviors are worth knowing:

If you want a container to never record history at all, enable Exclude from History in that container’s settings.

If the list looks incomplete after filtering:

That clears the search text and closes the search field, as well as resetting the date, visit-type, and container filters. You can also clear just the search text with the search button in the top bar.

To remove a single entry:

On History, this removes that visit from the browser’s saved history. On Downloads, this removes the download record from WebLibre.

If the download still exists on your device, WebLibre may ask whether you also want to delete the file itself.

In History, first clear any container filter. Then tap the delete button and choose Delete Time Range…. Pick Last hour, Today, or Last 7 days, or set your own From and To date and time. This deletes visits across all containers and removes finished or failed downloads from that range from the download list, but keeps the downloaded files. Downloads still in progress remain in the list. Check the selected range before confirming, especially if you keep downloads for later reference.

You can also remove several entries together:

This is useful when clearing one browsing session or cleaning up several related downloads at once.

If you want to clear history or downloads more broadly:

WebLibre then opens the regular delete-browsing-data flow with that category already selected. If you filtered History by a container, the delete button instead clears that container’s history.

This is a good option when you want to remove all history entries or all download records at once.

The library screens are for reviewing and managing entries directly. WebLibre also has broader cleanup tools under Data Management, such as:

Use the library screens when you want to inspect what is there first. Use privacy cleanup settings when you already know you want automatic or broader deletion behavior.