
You’re able to choose the Windows user, history or folder you’d like to analyze, and the history can be filtered by date and keyword ("only display sites containing one of these strings").īrowsingHistoryView also displays more history data than anyone else. The program displays the history of all the main browsers, for instance: Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, Safari and more.

And although we’re almost always impressed by Nir Sofer’s work, running it side by side with other people’s products made it even more obvious just how skilled he is. Tired of design issues, we turned to NirSoft’s BrowsingHistoryView.

There’s no ability to multi-select URLs, so if you’d like to remove everything you did yesterday, you have to do it one item at a time. There’s 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. Although the window wasn’t big enough to display the full width of every field (URL, Title, Visits, Visited Date), it can’t be resized or maximized. The history view spoils this immediately with an absurd design decision. The program improves on SterJo immediately by displaying the path of the Chrome history it’s using, and enabling you to choose any other location you might prefer (a portable copy, a Chrome variant, whatever it might be). SecurityXPloded Chrome History Manager is another portable history viewer for Windows XP and later. Select any URL and there are buttons to open it in your browser, or copy it to the clipboard.Ī "Save As" option exports the history as simple text, HTML or CSV reports. We didn’t have the browser open, just a background process to run an app, but Chrome History didn’t care.Īfter 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.

The program ran into immediate trouble on our test system, demanding that we close Chrome before it continued. SterJo Software has just released SterJo Chrome History, a stand-alone portable history viewer which runs on anything from XP up.
