Thread: How to view recent search history for IE and Firefox browsers

How to view recent search history for IE and Firefox browsers

When you talk about search history, most people are looking for a way to clear their search history or delete their search history, right? Well they are trying to hide it from someone and if they are not careful, an astute person reading this post will be able to VIEW the recent search history of any computer using a simple and free program.

Basically, when you perform searches in Google, Yahoo, MSN or any other search engine, the browser caches that search history onto the local computer in temp files. If you do not manually delete the search history, someone can easily come along and view all of your previous searches.

Now in IE and Firefox, you can open up the History sidebar and view the most recently visited sites, but it’s not so easy to see the all of the searches performed at various search sites. For example, if you go to Google.com, sometimes a drop down will appear with the latest searches performed and sometimes it won’t! An even so, that doesn’t stop someone from going to Yahoo and searching there.

If you want to quickly view all of the most recent searches performed on a computer no matter which search engine they used, check out a cool program called MyLastSearch.

MyLastSearch is a tiny 47KB program that doesn’t even require you to install it in order to use. It’s simply an .EXE file that can be run from a portable USB drive if you like! That means you can take it around and quickly connect it up to any computer and see the recent searches performed! This is a bad program if it gets into the wrong hands!

It seems to work on Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, and Alexa. You’ll have to try other search engines to see if it works on those, but most people are going to try one of those first.

Of course, if you delete the cache and history files from your browser, MyLastSearch will not be able to find anything, so if you want to be safe and not have your search history readable by this program, you can read the above article that I wrote titled “delete the search history”. In Firefox, you need to go to Tools, then Options, then click on Privacy and finally click on Clear Now.

Seems to be a good application. Does it support Opera or any other browser.
BTW. Do you know any program that can save everything I copy to clipboard(including Images and text) as a rtf or pdf file. I needed a software to save tutorials or instructions displayed in the websites for later(including picures). I don't want to save the whole page, but just what I need in that page.

Originally Posted by vishnus89

Seems to be a good application. Does it support Opera or any other browser.
BTW. Do you know any program that can save everything I copy to clipboard(including Images and text) as a rtf or pdf file. I needed a software to save tutorials or instructions displayed in the websites for later(including picures). I don't want to save the whole page, but just what I need in that page.

I used it with FF & IE..havnt tired it with other browsers....

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Originally Posted by vishnus89

Do you know any program that can save everything I copy to clipboard(including Images and text) as a rtf or pdf file ? I needed a software to save tutorials or instructions displayed in the websites for later(including picures). I don't want to save the whole page, but just what I need in that page.

Will let you know if I find any one...