How do i find out when a tab was last visited?
I have just recently started using Firefox, after using Chrome for a long time. It was on my computer, but I never used it before. However, some of my kids use my computer. I stopped using Chrome and just began using Firefox for my browsing and when I open a new tab, the window includes other tabs that have been visited. I see that there is some questionable browsing going on and I want to find out when these websites were visited. When I check the History, I only get for today and yesterday and it doesn't take much to figure out how to browse in private. My question is twofold...first, how did these tabs get there in the first place? And two, is there any way to find out when they were accessed? Thanks!
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hello, the sites only go there when someone visited them - normally firefox doesn't do any browsing on its own :-)
you can access the time in the library by views > show columns > visit date.
Thanks. This will sound silly but how do i get to Views?
hopefully a screenshot can clarify it :-)
So helpful! One more question for you - for how long will Firefox remember the History? On the window, it only shows today and yesterday. But the strange websites that come up in the New Tab window must have been visited before yesterday. If one of the kids visited a website and then "deleted" the history so it wouldn't appear on the list (and I would not see it), that is only one way to keep the viewing history private. It seems that if a site is visited often, then even when the history is deleted, Firefox will remember the site and have it pop up in the New Tab window. Is that right? Seems I may have to ban the kids from this computer, in any case! Thanks
i'm not entirely sure about the new tab page - in principle it will use an algorithm which populates the slots based on the frequency & the recency of visits. however i think that sites removed from the history should also disappear from the new tab page (when i tried it it was at least true after i've restarted the browser once) - if this isn't happening for you then it might be some bug...
in any case firefox won't have the proper features to reliably monitor your kids' browsing behaviour - they always can use private browsing mode where no traces will be left on the pc or manually "clean up" the history.