There's no way to remove unwanted sites from history

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

I visited a site I would rather wasn't listed in my activity view.
I can highlight it by longpressing in the "Currently viewing" section and remove it, but I can't get rid of it from the "Today" historical view.
I would expect that I would be able to long press on the historical screenshots and remove them.

See screenshot for example of a site I may not want to show up in my history :)

(added to illustrate this bug, you understand)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: webbrowser-app 0.22+14.04.20131107-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-mako armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: armhf
Date: Fri Dec 27 10:54:50 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-20 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch) - armhf (20131220)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: webbrowser-app
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Allan LeSage (allanlesage)]

Finding this feature singled out in a "functional overview" of desired features and so tagging for our qa review.

[Riccardo Padovani (rpadovani)]

I've never seen the screen popey posted, but if it is evolved in the new tab view (as I think) this bug has been fixed by https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/webbrowser-app/trunk/revision/969

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

@Riccardo: this implementation of the activity view (which was combining history and open tabs) is long gone.

@Alan: it is now possible to remove entries from the history by swiping them left/right, as well as to entirely clear the history database from the settings screen. And private browsing, useful for this use case, is being implemented as I write (see bug #1351179).