modcore Timeline

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What is modcore Timeline?

modcore Timeline is your personal activity log for browser extensions. It keeps a chronological record of everything that happens with your extensions - when they're installed, updated, enabled, disabled, or removed - giving you a complete audit trail of changes to your browser setup.

Unlike cloud-based solutions, Timeline stores everything locally on your computer. Your extension activity history never leaves your device, ensuring complete privacy while giving you powerful tools to track, search, and manage your extension lifecycle.

Getting Started

Timeline is disabled by default to respect your privacy and conserve system resources. To begin tracking:

Navigate to the Timeline page in modcore Extension Manager
Go to Settings and enable "modcore Timeline"

Once enabled, Timeline immediately begins recording extension events in the background. You can return to the Timeline view to see your activity log populate over time.

Information: If modcore Timeline is enabled but not tracking, try disabling and then re-enabling it. Timeline can become inactive for security reasons, which may result in the loss of some recordings.

Understanding Your Activity Log

The main Timeline view presents your extension activity as a chronological feed. Each entry shows:

What happened: The type of event (installed, updated, enabled, disabled, uninstalled, or permissions changed)
Which extension: The name and version of the affected extension
When: The timestamp of the event
Details: Additional context, such as permission changes during an update

Events are grouped by day for easy scanning, with visual separators for "Today" and "Yesterday" to help you quickly locate recent activity. Each event type has its own icon and color coding - green for installations, red for uninstallations, yellow for updates, and blue for status changes - making it easy to spot patterns at a glance.

German translation: Friday, March 6, 2026

Finding What You Need

As your history grows, Timeline provides several tools to locate specific events:

Search filters entries by extension name or details. Type "uBlock" to see every event related to uBlock Origin, or "permission" to find all permission-related changes across your extensions.

Event Type Filters let you focus on specific activities. Want to see only installations? Uncheck everything except "Installed" in the filter panel. Troubleshooting a disabled extension? Filter to show only "Disabled" events.

Date Range selection helps you investigate issues within specific timeframes. If you noticed a problem starting last week, set the start date to seven days ago to see only relevant activity.

Sort Order changes how results appear. View newest first for recent troubleshooting, oldest first for historical investigation, group by extension to see an individual extension's complete lifecycle, or sort by event type to cluster similar activities together. # You find this in 'Settings'

Managing Your Timeline Data

Over time, your activity log can grow substantial. Timeline provides several ways to manage this data:

Automatic Pruning keeps your database lean. Set a maximum number of records (default 1,000) and Timeline automatically removes oldest entries when you exceed this limit. Alternatively, enable time-based pruning to delete records older than a specified number of days (default 90 days).

Manual Pruning gives you precise control:

Prune by Days: Remove records older than X days immediately
Prune Inactive: Delete history for extensions you've uninstalled
Prune by Type: Remove specific event types (for example, clear all "enabled/disabled" toggles while keeping installations)

Customizing the Interface

Timeline adapts to your preferences:

Logs Per Page controls pagination. Increase this to see more entries at once, or decrease it for faster loading on older computers.

Display Timestamps toggles the time column. Disable this for a cleaner view if you only need to know which day events occurred.

Keyboard Shortcuts

For efficient navigation without reaching for your mouse:

Alt + F: Jump to search box
Alt + G: Toggle filter panel
Alt + R: Reset all filters
Alt + C: Clear all history (with confirmation)
Alt + S: Open Settings
Alt + H: Open Help
Alt + < or Alt + >: Navigate between pages

Important Limitations

Tracking requires an active background worker. Chromium browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, etc.) suspend extension background processes after periods of inactivity to save memory. If you leave your browser open for extended periods without interacting with modcore Extension Manager, Timeline may miss some events. This is a browser limitation that cannot be bypassed.

Uninstalled extensions lose their identity. When you remove an extension, Chrome deletes its metadata. Timeline preserves the event record but shows "Unknown" for the extension name and icon, since that information is no longer available from the browser.

Timeline begins when you enable tracking. Timeline cannot retroactively capture events that occurred before activation. If you disable tracking and re-enable it later, you'll have a gap in your history during the disabled period.

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