Firefox history is one of the most annoying part of the browser. It is impossible to click on a historical page and keep the context of the other visited pages that date/time. As soon you click on it, it will put it on top of the history and remove the old historical position. If you don't use search and manually scroll down, and then click on one (even with middle button), it will then instantly whoosh you back to the top of the history list, forcing you to scroll down and find the other links and repeat the process for each one.

Thunderbird filter function understand what I want when searching old emails. If you search on an email and selects the one you are interested, and then remove the search, it will automatic scroll the navigation to that date and keep the selected email on view.