Viewing Google Chrome\u2019s history is easy — just press Ctrl+H — but the standard window is basic, and doesn\u2019t give you much information or control. Viewing Google Chrome\u2019s history is easy \u2014 just press Ctrl+H \u2014 but the standard window is basic…<\/b>
Viewing Google Chrome\u2019s history is easy — just press Ctrl+H — but the standard window is basic, and doesn\u2019t give you much information or control.
Using a third-party portable tool provides extra details on your recent browsing past, and may be a more convenient and stealthy choice if you\u2019re hoping to check what someone else is doing in Chrome.
SterJo Software has just released SterJo Chrome History , a stand-alone portable history viewer which runs on anything from XP up.
The program ran into immediate trouble on our test system, demanding that we close Chrome before it continued. We didn\u2019t have the browser open, just a background process to run an app, but Chrome History didn\u2019t care.
After closing all Chrome.exe processes SterJo Chrome History correctly imported the history of the default user, displaying key details in a table: URLs, title, visit count and last visit time.
Select any URL and there are buttons to open it in your browser, or copy it to the clipboard.
A \u00ab\u00a0Save As\u00a0\u00bb option exports the history as simple text, HTML or CSV reports.
SecurityXPloded Chrome History Manager is another portable history viewer for Windows XP and later.
The program improves on SterJo immediately by displaying the path of the Chrome history it\u2019s using, and enabling you to choose any other location you might prefer (a portable copy, a Chrome variant, whatever it might be).
The history view spoils this immediately with an absurd design decision. Although the window wasn\u2019t big enough to display the full width of every field (URL, Title, Visits, Visited Date), it can\u2019t be resized or maximized.
There\u2019s some compensation in the ability to remove a selected URL from your history or clear it entirely, although this has some thought-free moments of its own. There\u2019s no ability to multi-select URLs, so if you\u2019d like to remove everything you did yesterday, you have to do it one item at a time. Sigh.
Tired of design issues, we turned to NirSoft\u2019s BrowsingHistoryView. And although we\u2019re almost always impressed by Nir Sofer\u2019s work, running it side by side with other people\u2019s products made it even more obvious just how skilled he is.
The program displays the history of all the main browsers, for instance: Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, Safari and more. You\u2019re able to choose the Windows user, history or folder you\u2019d like to analyze, and the history can be filtered by date and keyword (\u00ab\u00a0only display sites containing one of these strings\u00a0\u00bb).
BrowsingHistoryView also displays more history data than anyone else. As well as the URL, title, visit count and visited time, there\u2019s a \u00ab\u00a0visited from\u00a0\u00bb column for some URLs (the referrer URL). And a \u00ab\u00a0Typed\u00a0\u00bb column shows how often some URLs have been manually typed rather than clicked, which might give you some interesting forensic clues about a user\u2019s favorite sites.
There are none of the \u00ab\u00a0d\u2019oh! \u00a0\u00bb moments you\u2019ll see elsewhere. BrowsingHistoryView didn\u2019t demand we close every Chrome process. We could resize its window and table, and it saved and restored those settings for the next run. And Sofer understands that, you know, people might want to select a number of URLs which lies somewhere between 1 and all of them, and you can do this in the usual way.
Even this is just the beginning. The program\u2019s NirSoft page explains how you can use it to read histories from a remote computer, from shadow copies, even automating the process via the command line interface.
SterJo Chrome History and SecurityXPloded\u2019s Chrome History Manager are simpler, and just about manage the Chrome-history-handling basics, but let\u2019s be realistic: BrowsingHistoryView still leaves them trailing in its digital wake.
BrowsingHistoryView , SterJo Chrome History and SecurityXPloded Chrome History Manager run on Windows XP and later.<\/p>\n

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