Keeping track of all your history items can be quite the feat if you are using more than one browser. Privacy conscious users usually delete the information regularly, while the majority of users is likely unaware what their web browser and operating system can reveal about them. History Viewer is a free program for the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Etymology is the study of a word’s meaning in history. If you are not a scientist trying to find the origin of a word and the changes it went through throughout history, you are probably most interested in the original meaning of a word. This can be interesting from two perspectives. You first may want [...]

Categories: Online Services

The standard history page of the Google Chrome web browser is a mess. All visited web pages are listed in order of visit, with no options to filter the items by date, name or frequency of visits. Only the search at the top offers some form of customization, as it can be used to find [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

The history in web browsing terms refers to the group of websites that have been visited previously. Depending on the settings the history can contain the websites that have been visited on that day, the individual browsing session or several days. Why is the browser recording the history? To give the user a tool at [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The history stores information about previously visited websites. Every web browser offers this feature, and the major difference is the way it can be accessed. Firefox users for instance can display the history in a sidebar. Chrome users by default on the other hand are limited to displaying visited websites in a new tab, which [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

If you are working on a multi-user system you may sometimes want to hide information about visited websites from those other users. While it is possible to do that with the private browsing mode in Firefox, or by deleting all temporary files and the history, it often is more convenient to delete only the recent [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Tutorials Basic

All web browsers are currently having a CSS history privacy leak which enables attackers to brute force a list of sites that the user visited on the Internet. The CSS leak makes use of a function in CSS that colors visited and not visited links differently. All the attacker needs to do is to display [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The Firefox web browser will save visited websites for a minimum of 90 days and a maximum of 180 days in the Firefox history by default. The hard limit is set to 40000 websites that are stored in the History. When that limit is reached old history entries will be deleted from the database that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

There are many users who like to use the history of their web browser as it provides them with faster access to websites as well as a way to find websites again that they have opened in the past. There are also users who prefer to block the history completely as they value their privacy [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox