What's new in BrowsingHistoryView 2.57
Nov 12, 2023
- Updated to read the history file of the latest Opera versions.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.56 (Aug 30, 2023)
- Added option to choose another font (name and size) to display in the main window.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.55 (Mar 19, 2023)
- Added 'Sort By' toolbar button.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.54 (Feb 7, 2023)
- 'Copy QR Code' option - Added white space around the QR Code.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.53 (Dec 1, 2022)
- Fixed to read the history of multiple profiles in Yandex and Vivaldi Web browsers.
- Updated to stop the Web browsers history scan when you press the Esc key.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.52 (Sep 27, 2022)
- The status bar now displays the current scanned history filename.
- Fixed the quick-filter text-box to copy to the clipboard when pressing Ctrl+C.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.51 (Jan 31, 2022)
- Added 'Visit Duration' column. This column is available only for Chrome and Chromium-based Web browsers.
- Improved the 'Visited From' column in new versions of Chrome.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.50 (Sep 7, 2021)
- Added option to change the sorting column from the menu (View -> Sort By). Like the column header click sorting, if you click again the same sorting menu item, it'll switch between ascending and descending order. Also, if you hold down the shift key while choosing the sort menu item, you'll get a secondary sorting.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.48 (May 5, 2021)
- Added toolbar button to the 'Display QR Code' option.
- Fixed bug: When using the /SaveDirect command-line option, the 'Visited From' column contained incorrect value.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.47 (Mar 18, 2021)
- Added 'Copy QR Code' option (Under the Edit menu), which allows you to copy the QR Code image to the clipboard.
- Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.46 (Jan 19, 2021)
- Added support for Brave Web browser.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.45 (Oct 22, 2020)
- Added 'Display QR Code' option (Under the View menu): When it's turned on, QR Code of the selected URL is displayed in the lower pane, and you can use QR Code Reader app on your Smartphone to instantly open the URL in the Web browser of your Smartphone.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.41 (Jul 20, 2020)
- Fixed the /cfg command-line option to load the .cfg file from the current directory if full path is not specified.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.40 (Mar 14, 2020)
- Added new date/time filter: 'Load history items from the following time range and date range (separately)'. For example... You can search browsing history items that their modified date is between 01/01/2019 - 01/01/2020 and their modified time is between 02:00 - 04:00.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.36 (Jan 27, 2020)
- Added button on the toolbar to delete Chrome / Firefox history records.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.35 (Dec 19, 2019)
- Added 'Delete Selected History Records' option (Ctrl+Delete), which allows you to delete individual history records of Chrome and Firefox Web browsers (Including Web browsers that use the same history database of Chrome/Firefox, like Waterfox, SeaMonkey, Vivaldi, and so on...)
- Other Web browsers are not supported.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.30 (Dec 3, 2019)
- Added new columns: 'History File' and 'Record ID'.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.26 (Nov 11, 2019)
- Added 'Double-Click Action' option, which allows you to choose what to do when you double-click on history item - Open properties window or open the URL in Web browser.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.25 (Sep 19, 2019)
- Added support for Waterfox Web browser.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.21 (Aug 8, 2019)
- Added option to specify the time range in local time (Instead of GMT).
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.20 (Jun 25, 2019)
- BrowsingHistoryView now automatically detects the Chromium-based Edge Web browser.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.17 (Jul 16, 2018)
- You can now specify environment variables in the history files of the 'Load history from the specified history files' option.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.16 (Jun 29, 2018)
- Fixed to work with Firefox 61.0
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.15 (Dec 16, 2017)
- Added support for Pale Moon Web browser.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.12 (Dec 3, 2017)
- Added new options to the 'Quick Filter' feature.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.11 (Nov 13, 2017)
- The remote computer name ('Load history from remote computer' option ) is now saved in the .cfg file. Also, you can set the remote computer from command-line with /ComputerName command-line option.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.10 (Aug 8, 2017)
- Added new option: 'Automatically stop the cache task of IE10/IE11/Edge for unlocking the database file.' If this option is turned on - BrowsingHistoryView automatically stops the 'CacheTask' Scheduled task to unlock the database file of IE10/IE11/Edge (WebCacheV01.dat).
- When you use the 'Load history from remote computer' option, BrowsingHistoryView will stop the 'CacheTask' Scheduled task on the remote computer, so you'll be able to view the history of IE10/IE11/Edge remotely.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.05 (May 16, 2017)
- Added 'Load history from remote computer' option in 'Advanced Options' window. Be aware that this option works only when you have full admin access to the remote computer. Also, the history of IE10/IE11 is only available before the user logged-on to the system, because after the log-on the history database of IE10/IE11 is locked.
- Fixed bug: 'Copy Selected Items' worked improperly when setting the 'Unicode/Ascii Save Mode' to 'Always UTF-8'.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 2.00 (Apr 5, 2017)
- Added 'Visit Type' column for Chrome and Firefox Web browsers. (Link, Typed URL, Bookmark, and so on)
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.95 (Feb 8, 2017)
- Added 'Quick Filter' feature (View -> Use Quick Filter or Ctrl+Q). When it's turned on, you can type a string in the text-box added under the toolbar and BrowsingHistoryView will instantly filter the history table, showing only lines that contain the string you typed.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.91 (Jan 18, 2017)
- Fix bug: When using /SaveDirect command-line option, the file was always saved according to the default encoding, instead of using the selected encoding in Options -> Save File Encoding.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.90 (Sep 23, 2016)
- Added support for Vivaldi Web browser.
- When 'Load history from the specified profiles folder' option is selected, the folders combo-box is filled with the profiles folders stored in shadow copies of your hard drive. When loading history from shadow copies, you may find history items older than what you can find in your current system.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.87 (Aug 26, 2016)
- Added secondary sorting support: You can now get a secondary sorting, by holding down the shift key while clicking the column header. Be aware that you only have to hold down the shift key when clicking the second/third/fourth column. To sort the first column you should not hold down the Shift key.
- Fixed bug: BrowsingHistoryView crashed when using the find option while the last item was selected.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.86 (Apr 8, 2016)
- You can now choose the desired encoding (ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-16) to save the csv/xml/text/html files. (Under the Options menu)
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.85 (Feb 29, 2016)
- Added new option to the 'Advanced Options' window: Load only URLs contain one of the specified strings (comma-delimited list).
- Added new option to the 'Advanced Options' window: Don't load URLs that contain one of the specified strings (comma-delimited list).
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.81 (Feb 3, 2016)
- The 'Web Browser' column now displays 'Internet Explorer 10/11 / Edge' for items of IE10/IE11/Edge (In previous versions it displayed 'Internet Explorer 10')
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.80 (Jan 18, 2016)
- Added support for Yandex Web browser
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.77 (Nov 11, 2015)
- The properties window is now larger and resizable.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.76 (Sep 15, 2015)
- Added option to skip duplicate URLs that their visit time difference is less than xx seconds. (In 'Advanced Options' window) Sometimes, A web browser may record a Web page visit multiple times with a difference of a few seconds, even when the Web page was visited only once. This option allows you to hide these duplicate history records
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.75 (Aug 24, 2015)
- Added support for Microsoft Edge/Project Spartan (On Windows 10).
- Fixed issue: When Internet Explorer 10/11 was opened by multiple users, BrowsingHistoryView displayed all history records of IE 10/11 multiple times.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.71 (Jul 13, 2015)
- Fixed issue: When loading large amount of history items, some actions, like selecting items and copying selected items to the clipboard were very slow.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.70 (Jun 5, 2015)
- Added 'Typed Count' column (Only relevant to Chrome Web browser).
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.69 (May 11, 2015)
- Fixed issue: On some systems, BrowsingHistoryView failed to read the history of IE10/IE11 from WebCacheV01.dat
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.68 (Apr 2, 2015)
- BrowsingHistoryView now detects the portable version of Firefox if it's running in the background.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.67 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Added 'URL Length' column.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.66 (Feb 16, 2015)
- Added 'Load history items from the last xx minutes' to the 'Advanced Options' window.
- Fixed bug: BrowsingHistoryView failed to remember the last size/position of the main window if it was not located in the primary monitor.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.65 (Jan 8, 2015)
- Added support for Opera (Version 15 or later).
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.60 (Nov 11, 2014)
- Added 'Browser Profile' column, which displays the folder name of the Web browser profile (For Firefox and Chrome Web browsers).
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.55 (Sep 26, 2014)
- Added 'Save Configuration To File' and 'Load Configuration From File' options.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.52 (May 16, 2014)
- Fixed bug: When getting history information from a remote computer and both local computer and remote computer have IE10 or IE11, BrowsingHistoryView displayed the IE10/IE11 history of the local computer... (Be aware that BrowsingHistoryView cannot display the IE10/IE11 history of a remote computer while the WebCacheV01.dat file on the remote computer is locked)
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.51 (May 9, 2014)
- Fixed to find the correct item when typing the string you want to search into the main List View
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.50 (Apr 3, 2014)
- Added 'Load history from the specified history files' option in the 'Advanced Options' window
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.44 (Mar 13, 2014)
- Fixed bug from v1.43: BrowsingHistoryView stopped working on Windows 2000
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.43 (Jan 3, 2014)
- Fixed to display date/time values according to daylight saving time settings.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.42 (Oct 25, 2013)
- Added /cfg command-line option, which instructs BrowsingHistoryView to use a config file in another location instead if the default config file, for example:
- BrowsingHistoryView.exe /cfg "%AppData%\BrowsingHistoryView.cfg"
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.41 (Sep 15, 2013)
- Fixed a bug with displaying IDN URLs (URLs containing non-English characters) from Firefox history.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.40 (Aug 30, 2013)
- Added new data source in the 'Advanced Options' window: Load history from the specified custom folders. In this option, you can select the correct AppData folder, Local AppData folder, and the History folder of the profile you want to inspect
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.36 (Aug 12, 2013)
- Fixed the problem with the 'Advanced Options' window on Windows 2000
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.35 (Aug 2, 2013)
- Added 'Show Advanced Options On Start' option. You can turn off this option if you don't want that the 'Advanced Options' window will appear on every time that you run BrowsingHistoryView
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.33 (Jun 18, 2013)
- Improved the detection of AppData and Local AppData folders when reading the history from external drive.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.32 (Jun 11, 2013)
- Added secondary sorting: When clicking the 'Web Browser' column header, the list is sorted by the 'Web Browser' column, and then by the 'Visit Time' column.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.31 (May 14, 2013)
- Added option to get the history from Internet Explorer API, instead of reading the file directly. (Available only when loading the history of the current user).
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.30 (May 2, 2013)
- Added improved support for Internet Explorer 10, which works smoothly and doesn't require to run BrowsingHistoryView as administrator. There is no need to execute BrowsingHistoryView with any additinal command-line option in order to read the locked file of IE10 (WebCacheV24.dat or WebCacheV01.dat), and the /UseVolumeShadowCopy command-line option added on v1.15 was removed from this version.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.27 (Apr 25, 2013)
- Fixed bug: BrowsingHistoryView failed to load Firefox profile located on a drive letter which is different from the drive letter where the Windows profiles (c:\users ...) are located.
- Fixed the flickering appeared while scrolling the history items.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.26 (Apr 19, 2013)
- Fixed bug: When exporting browser history data with /SaveDirect command-line option, BrowsingHistoryView added byte order mark of Unicode, while the file was saved as Ascii
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.25 (Feb 28, 2013)
- BrowsingHistoryView now reads the history of all profiles from Chrome and Chrome Canary Web browsers
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.21 (Feb 8, 2013)
- Fixed bug: BrowsingHistoryView displayed corrupted URLs from partially deleted records of Internet Explorer history file.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.20 (Dec 28, 2012)
- Added support for Chrome Canary and SeaMonkey Web browsers.
- Added 'Mark Odd/Even Rows' option, under the View menu. When it's turned on, the odd and even rows are displayed in different color, to make it easier to read a single line.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.16 (Dec 21, 2012)
- Fixed bug: BrowsingHistoryView failed to read some of the history items of Internet Explorer 10.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.15 (Dec 21, 2012)
- Added support for Internet Explorer 10. There are some limitations and problems with this version of Internet Explorer. See the 'Internet Explorer 10 Support' section for more information.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.10 (Nov 20, 2012)
- Added 'Visited From' column (Only for Firefox and Chrome), which displays the URL that the user has visited prior to the Web page specified under the URL column
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.06 (Oct 22, 2012)
- Fixed BrowsingHistoryView to display the Web page title for Internet Explorer Web browser
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.05 (Sep 17, 2012)
- Added 'Copy URLs' option (Ctrl+U)
- Added 'Open URL In Web Browser' option.
New in BrowsingHistoryView 1.01 (Aug 28, 2012)
- BrowsingHistoryView now reads the profiles.ini file of Firefox to get the correct profile folders