If you have deleted your browser history and now want to find a previously visited page, then here you will find a real method to restore the list of visited pages and find out what pitfalls await you on the Internet.
If you are interested in restoring a history that was not previously saved, then we advise you to read:
Restoring from a Pre-Saved History
I offer you an option that I myself tested on each of the browsers described below.
You can restore deleted history in the following order:
- Save the history file.
- Copy it to a specially created folder, i.e. make a backup.
- If you deleted the history and want to restore it, return the saved files from the backup to the original folder.
First you need to allow the explorer to display folders hidden on the PC. Therefore, go to the explorer, click "Tools → Folder Options".
In the window that appears, activate the "View" tab and check the box next to the "Show hidden ..." line. Click the "Apply" button.
I show the further order of work using the example of Opera. For other browsers, the technology is the same. The only difference is in the name of the file and its location, which I will indicate.
Open the AppData folder. You get to it through "Users" (Users) →<Имя пользователя>. Do not leave it until the end of the article.
Opera
Find the file History. Go to it through the folders: Roaming → Opera Software → Opera Stable.
Copy it to any folder on the hard drive. This will be the backup history file. Now, if you clear the list of visited pages in the browser, then it can be restored. To do this, do this:
- Close Opera.
- Copy the backup file to the original folder, i.e. Opera Stable .
- Launch your browser and enjoy the returned list of web pages.
Make such a backup regularly, and you will not have problems with returning the list of visited pages.
Mozilla
Do you need a file places.sqlite. Here again go to Roaming, and then to Mozilla → Firefox → Profiles. If you come across a subfolder in Profiles, don't be alarmed: places.sqlite inside her.
Google Chrome
Here the file is called History. Go to it along this path: Local → Google → Chrome → User Data → Default .
Yandex Browser
The file is named History. The path is as follows: Local → Yandex → YandexBrowser → User Data → Default.
If you searched the Internet for how to recover a deleted history, you could get recommendations from unfortunate specialists who themselves have not tried what they advise others on a computer. Following their methods, one can only kill time and scold oneself for the fact that absolutely nothing succeeds. And the reason is not in you, but in the source of information.
I tested the methods described on the network myself. I will say that without preliminary measures taken, you will not be able to return the list of visited pages.
The reason is simple - this list is stored in a specific file, which is overwritten when the "Clear History" button is clicked, but is not deleted.
What should not be timed?
I'll show you the pitfalls that you can run into
DNS cache is not browser pages
If you decide to save the day with a DNS cache, then in this way you can see a list of all the sites that the computer has accessed, but not restore the browser history.
To verify this, write ipconfig / displaydns on the command line and find out who your PC is “talking” to behind your back. But you won't find the pages you need.
System or history restore?
If some site says that you can use the Windows System Restore utility, then this will help otherwise, but you will not return a list of visits.
How to delete history in Yandex
To delete history in Yandex browser, click on the drop-down menu button and select the Advanced option, which has a couple of additional links. You need to select Clear history. If you saw in the screenshot below, the same command has warm keys for quick access Ctrl + Shift + Del, which can be pressed without resorting to the menu.
At the end of clicking, a window will open with parameters for deletion and a choice for which period you want to delete.
- First select the period to delete.
- After that, mark what exactly you want to delete. In addition to your browsing history, you can, for security, delete all passwords that the browser has remembered, form auto-fill data, and saved application data.
- Finally, confirm the deletion by clicking on the Clear history button.
Before deleting, you have the opportunity to pre-check what you are deleting. Now you understand how to delete history in Yandex. How to look at the history in Yandex, read below.
How to view history in Yandex browser
In order to get to the page to view the history, click on the Yandex browser settings button. Select the History item and click on the History link in the drop-down menu. As you can see in the screenshot below, there is a warm key combination Ctrl+H for quick access to the history. This combination is the same for virtually all browsers. So if you want to look at the history in another browser, this keyboard shortcut will take you to the history page.
How to clear history on google chrome
In order to delete history in Google Chrome, you need to click on the button Customize and manage Google Chrome. These are three horizontal stripes in the upper right corner. Select Settings from the menu list.
By default, on the main settings screen, access to clear history is hidden. You need to click on the Show advanced settings link.
In the window that opens, you need to select what you want to delete.
- First, select the desired period for deleting history;
- After that, check the box that you want to delete. In order to clear the history in chrome completely, mark accordingly all the items as in the image;
- Confirm the deletion by clicking on the Clear history button.
Often users ask questions about how to disable saving history in chrome. Unfortunately, it is unrealistic to completely disable history in google chrome. The only method is to use the anonymity mode, in which nothing is saved. The only thing you have the ability to disable is to set Cookies. To do this, in the Personal data section, click on Content settings.
In the Cookies section, select your desired cookie options. You have the ability to set parameters both to completely prohibit sites from saving, and to allow data to be deleted when the browser is closed.
How to view history in google chrome
To view the history in chrome, do the following:
- Click the Customize and Manage Google Chrome button.
- Select History and recent tabs.
- In the window that opens, you have the opportunity to immediately notice the latest sites that you visited on this computer and on devices that work under the same Google account as this computer. To see the whole story, click on History. Just like in the previous example, it is possible to press the Ctrl+H key combination.
The history window in Google Chrome contains all browsing history from all your devices under your Google account.
how to delete history in mozilla firefox
To clear the history in Firefox Mozilla, press the key, which in Firefox is called Open Menu. These are all the same three horizontal dashes at the top right of the screen. And then click on the Journal link.
Select the period for which you need to clear the history in Firefox. Tick what exactly you want to delete and confirm the deletion of the history by clicking on the Delete for now button.
How to view history in mozilla
To view the history in firefox, click on the Open menu button and then on the Log menu item.
When the click is finished, a window with a brief history of visits will open. To see the whole magazine in its entirety, click on Show the whole magazine.
In the history view window, you can:
- Filter by page view time.
- A window with a list of visited pages that match the filter parameters or the search query.
- A description of the selected link you visited.
- The string to search the log for.
View and delete history in the Edge browser
To view history in Microsoft Edge, click on the button called Hub and then on the History button. In the list, you will notice the history, which is ordered by the time of the visit, and in order to look at earlier visits, you need to expand the tab with the corresponding date or period.
To clear your browsing history in the Edge browser, click on the Hub button and in the History menu item, click on the Clear all history link.
In the window for cleaning, select what you want to delete and click on the Clean button.
How to clear history in opera
To delete a history in Opera, click on the Opera icon and select the History link or the Ctrl+H keyboard shortcut from the list.
In the history window, click on the Clear browsing history button.
In the clear history window, select the period to delete, check the box that you want to delete and click on the Clear browsing history button.
How to watch a story at the opera
Press the key combination Ctrl + H or, as in the previous example, navigate through the menu.
In the history window you have access to:
- Filter to select history for a specific period.
- History search string.
- A window with a list of sites that you visited during the selected period.
“How to clear the history in the browser, how to make sure that it is not saved” - such questions are often asked by users iPad and iPhone . I'm talking about the browser, of course. safari . The question is relevant, especially for those who allow other people to use their tablet and at the same time do not want these people to see the pages that you visited. Let's see how to do it all iPad.
How to clear browser historysafari.
Usually the owners iPad think about privacy when using the browser only when there is such a need. For example, relatives came and asked to sit on your iPad . In this case, your history of visiting sites may become not only yours. Therefore, the only way in this case is to delete everything completely.
To do this, click the "Settings" icon, then look for the item " safari ” and already in it we find these two points:
Clear the history.
Delete cookies and data.
Our site advises you to delete both your browsing history and files cookie.
How to setupsafariso that browsing history is not saved.
But there is another situation. For example, someone at any time can ask you to surf the Internet on your iPad , and the phrase “wait, I’ll erase everything here in the browser so that you don’t see (didn’t see) anything” can cast a shadow of suspicion on you. Then I suggest you to preconfigure your browser like this:
It's in the privacy settings safari , (see screenshot above), there are the following two items:
Private access.
Accept files cookie.
Set the “Private access” item to the “ON” position, in the “Accept files cookie "Set the value to "Never". This will save you from all the awkward situations. When using "Private Access", the history of visiting web pages should not be saved. Disabling same files cookie » may lead to an increase in traffic, because these files will be downloaded again and again every time you visit any site. For tariffs with unlimited Internet, this is not a problem, but if you have a different tariff, then be careful with this issue.
In order not to clean up the history, it is better to use the most secure
All Internet browsers keep a history of the pages visited by the user, various data are also written to the cache, such as video and audio files, pictures and various scripts. All this is done for ease of navigation and saving Internet traffic. In order to prevent the browser from keeping history, you need to make the appropriate settings in the program.
Instruction
One of the most useful features of all modern browsers is the ability to save and display history. The user can not only view the list of completed actions, but also edit it: delete those steps that should not be recorded in the history. But there are also situations when deleted fragments of history can be restored.
History in Yandex Browser
Yandex Browser, like many other browsers, provides quick access to history. In it, he saves information about which links, in what sequence and at what time the user clicked. You can access the history through the browser itself:
Partial clearing of history
If you want to remove information about one or more transitions from the history, but at the same time keep the rest of your browsing history, then hover your mouse over the icon of unnecessary links (the icon next to the column with the transition time) - it will turn into a switch that you can check. Check off all the items you want to delete, and then click on the "Delete selected items" button - it appears at the top of the entire list when at least one item is selected.
Select the items and click "Remove Selected Items"
Complete clearing of history
If you want to erase information about your transitions for all time or for a certain period (for a week, month, year), then follow these steps:
Video: deleting history in Yandex Browser
Turn off history
Switching to incognito mode
The first option is suitable if you need to disable history recording, for example, only for working on one site, or you do not want to access the registry setting so as not to damage it. The "Incognito" mode is built into Yandex Browser - you can switch to it by holding down the Ctrl + Shift + N combination on the keyboard. After using it, after a few seconds, a separate tab will open with a dark design, indicating that you are currently in Incognito mode.
History is not saved in incognito mode
Registry editing
If you need to turn off history recording, no matter what you do and what sites you go to, you will have to follow these steps:
The default value for this key is 0 (zero), so the history is kept. Changing the setting will cause the browser to stop saving history immediately after it is restarted with an updated value in the registry. If in the future you want to return permission to the browser to work with your navigation on the Internet, then set the value to 0 again.
History recovery
If the history was deleted by one of the above methods, then the chances that it can be restored in whole or in part remain, but small. There are several methods, each of which differs in its approach to recovering lost data: system rollback, viewing cookie data, and using third-party programs.
Where is history stored?
Before trying to recover deleted data, you need to know how it is stored. To do this, you can go to the folder allocated to Yandex Browser on the system disk (usually the Yandex folder on section C), select the UserDate - Default subfolder. The final subfolder will contain many files, but among them you can find elements with the key History. It is in them that all data relating to history is recorded.
History is stored in the Default folder
Browsing cookies
Cookies are pieces of various data transmitted from a website to a browser. They are necessary, for example, so that the user does not have to re-enter the password each time. Since they save the address of the Internet resource along with information about the site, by viewing them, you can find out where the user has been.
But keep in mind that cookies are not sent and stored from all visited sites, and they are often deleted along with the history.
- From the browser menu, select "Settings".
Open the "Settings" section
- After scrolling to the bottom of the settings page, expand all advanced options. Find the section "Personal data" and click on the button "Content settings".
Click on the "Content Settings" button
- In the window that opens, click on the "Show cookies and site data" button.
Click the "Show cookies and site data" button
- A list of all saved cookies will appear. Study it, you may be able to find the information you need.
You can find the sites you need in the cookie list
Using a Third Party Program
There is a third-party program that, using nested algorithms, searches all the nooks and crannies of the computer for files that can help restore the lost history. It's called Hc. Historian. Download it and open the hc. Historian.Optionshc.install.bat, which is the basis of the application, and then follow these steps:
System rollback
By default, the operating system automatically creates backup copies of itself once in a while. They are needed in case Windows encounters errors that it cannot solve, and it has only one way out - to return its files to the state they were in when there was no unresolvable error.
The backup contains all the files in the form in which they arrived at the time the copy was created. This means that the browser history files are also stored in it, and by performing a system rollback, you can roll back the history entries. The disadvantage of this method is that all elements will be rolled back, so if something was installed or changed after the copy was created, it will be reset to zero.
Recovery to a backup point is performed by system tools:
- Type in the name "Recovery" in the system search bar and open the found section of the control panel.
Specify which point to use for rollback
The duration of recovery depends on the performance of the computer and the workload of the hard disk, so sometimes it takes more than an hour, although more often it is completed in 10-15 minutes. After the rollback is completed, it will be possible to check if the history has been restored.
Video: Recover Deleted Browser History
Yandex Browser saves the links that the user has followed. History can be partially or completely cleared. It is restored through cookies, third-party programs and system rollback. History recording can be disabled by editing the registry or by activating Incognito mode.