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How does my browser know I've visited a page if the URL is redirecting?

How do Chrome, Safari, Firefox or other browsers know you've visited the destination URL of a redirecting link? I've always found it interesting that the browsers know the URL a redirecting URL lands ...
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Search Google Chrome web history for a PDF file

Is there any way to search in your Google Chrome history for a pdf file? I know you can accomplish this in the regular Google search box with filetype:pdf. But this does not work in the history search ...
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How to manage cookies when GPO prevents history delete

I've disabled history deletion in the default GPO. Works great. However, now when I have a user who does nees to clear cookies (buggy website), I can't figure out how to clear them. Is there a ...
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Retrieving deleted IE8 history [closed]

How can I retrieve the browsing history in internet explorer 8 after it's been deleted?
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2answers
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is there a way to view Google Chrome browsing history past three months ago?

I'm trying to find a tutorial I found months ago but it looks like it's disappeared off the face of the planet. I thought I would have better luck looking through my Google Chrome browsing history but ...
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4answers
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Preventing Chrome from keeping my history

I would like Chrome to stop keeping my browsing history. I am familiar with incognito mode but would like to retain everything from my browsing except my history (e.g., Incognito mode deletes cookies ...
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4answers
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How do I delete previously entered items from Google Chrome Omnibox?

Chrome's Omnibox keeps sites that I most frequently visit - and this is good. However, one of my most visited pages has its URL changed, and I want to remove this from the Chrome Omnibox suggestions, ...
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1answer
540 views

free Web and IM history logging program

I need to be able to log web browser history and instant messenger discussions without the user have the option to disable it via the browser/instant messenger. Preferrebly free. Any suggestions?
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4answers
16k views

Prevent history deletion on Google Chrome

One of the guys I'm in charge of hasn't been pulling his weight. His productivity and quality of workmanship are way down and his computer's been getting malware infections lately. You can see where ...
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3answers
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How can I make Firefox remember my session while still clearing the browsing history on close?

I am aware, thanks to a thread [1], that Firefox doesn't save sessions when browsing history is cleared at close, as effectively the open tabs are themselves cleared from the history before the ...
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Is there a browser which saves history as a graph [closed]

When looking at a browsing session, one can describe this session as a graph. For example if you: went to google, searched for "cats", then went to the wikipedia article about cats, clicked back to ...
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firefox: don't save error pages in history

Can I configure Firefox so that error pages are not kept in the history? If I enter once a mistaken URL, say superusre.com, it is kept in my history. Every time I start typing supe... it is suggested ...