Is there a way to view private browsing history from a few days ago on a Mac?
by briscomiranda1 on September 21, 2012Q: I have a 2.1 macbook and I know the code to use terminal to view private browsing history from today but is there a way to view the private browsing history from yesterday or days ago?
Tags: Mac OS X
Nope. Private browsing history isn’t stored on the harddrive. Hence “private” 🙂
Mark (Uber Geek) says: on September 21, 2012 at 9:25 am
You can view the private browsing history with a code on terminal but it only shows the current days activity.
briscomiranda1 (Newbie) says: on September 21, 2012 at 7:01 pm
I have been able to view private browsing using terminal but I can only see it for the current day. Does anyone know how to look further back?
briscomiranda1 (Newbie) says: on September 21, 2012 at 12:44 pm
What is this terminal command you’re using to view for the current day?
Mark (Uber Geek) says: on September 24, 2012 at 10:16 am
Wouldn’t you like to know…..
Just kidding. It’s this:
dscacheutil -cachedump -entries Host
I just don’t know how to get it to go farther back.
briscomiranda1 (Newbie) says: on September 24, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Oh okay, you’re viewing the DNS cache. Not truly browser history, but it viewing the DNS cache will show domain names the computer has recently accessed.
It’s a DNS cache, and not history, so older data simply isn’t stored there.
Mark (Uber Geek) says: on September 25, 2012 at 8:32 am