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Title: Question concerning Firefox and browsing history
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Published: Nov 10, 2010
Author: F.A. Hayek Fan
Post Date: 2010-11-10 12:44:44 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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I have reason to believe that my 16 y.o. son is looking at porn on his laptop. However, he knows how to go to the history tool bar and delete his browsing history. Is there another way that I can look at the browsing history?

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#79. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0) (Edited)

Firefox cache/history is in the following location in Windows: C:Documents and Settings/"username"/Local Settings/Application Data/MozillaFirefox/Profiles/"number-character-string".default/Cache

The best way to read it, is to simply open Firefox and type in "about:cache" to see what comes up.

Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 has gotten really good at cleaning up after itself. You can go to Tools > Clear Recent History and use a drop down arrow to clean out your viewing for the last hour, two hours, etc., and on up to everything. A really smart person would only dust their tracks for the time they were doing their nefarious deeds. A 16 year old is likely to go for the shotgun approach and dust everyone's tracks for the past 6 months. Doing the "about:cache" would probably show you the difference. For instance, if you saw a history through Sunday and then everything past that has suddenly vanished. Check the Firefox log again on Friday and see the log goes back to Thursday and everything past that has now mysteriously vanished.

Not only that, but Firefox (think starting with 3.4 or 3.5) has a feature called Private Browsing. Tools > Start Private Browsing and when you are done you can either close Firefox or Tools > Stop Private Browsing. Your tracks for that session are supposedly blown away.

Another end-round is that your home router may have a log enabled that is keeping track of the last 50-100 sites visited. Get your router name and model, hit Google and see anyone knows about logs for it and how to set them if possible. My Linksys has it turned off by default. The only catch to this is if you or anyone is running Tor or some kind of anonymizer, the router may not see the sites really being visited.

Otherwise, you may be looking at having to find some kind of keylogger program.

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