Comment 1 for bug 1212174

This is really a limitation of the APIs Horizon is calling. They use the marker/limit system which makes it impossible to do as you suggest. There is also heavy resistance in the community to improving on the pagination mechanism in the APIs. That said previous may be an option for at least two services, nova and glance. See http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-August/013642.html