SillyDog701

[th.61]

Hi Everyone,

Here is a tech question for people who know their stuff.
I was wanting to know anyone knows the First time, or year, when the Netscape Browser for Macs had a readable 'History'.
I.E A readable file (list of websites visited etc) kept outside the browser in a document within the 'User' folder or 'Preferences'. (Stored where the cache and cookies are).

Can anyone help me?

subject renamed from "*Netscape Browser Archive Question*" to better reflect the topic and there's no need to steal attention. Antony 16.12.2006

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8

[Don_HH2K]

A history list has been in Netscape since 1.0 (and presumably some earlier test versions), but I'm not sure whether or not it saved its contents to the disk or dumped them on exit. I do know that Netscape 4.0x does save the list to the disk.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0 x64; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061030 BonEcho/2.0 (mmoy CE K8N-X02)

[th.61]

Don, when you say a list which is saved to disk, is this one that is saved in the 'user' folder or 'preferences' folder Outside the browser on the computer?
And is it readable, ie. can you tell website urls, or is it just computer gibberish and code.

I thought that no netscapes browsers before 2001 or so had a readable history stored outside the browser in a word readable document.

Mark.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8

[Don_HH2K]

Yes, when I said "saved to disk", I meant a history file stored outside the browser. I'm not sure how Netscape 4 saved the list, but Netscape 6 and higher save it such that you really couldn't easily read it (though it is coded with a human-readable set of letters and numbers and such). For example, Netscape and Firefox use the same kind of file to save browser history, and my Firefox history file looks like this:

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// <!-- <mdb:mork:z v="1.4"/> -->
< <(a=c)> // (f=iso-8859-1)
  (8A=Typed)(8B=LastPageVisited)(8C=ByteOrder)
  (80=ns:history:db:row:scope:history:all)
  (81=ns:history:db:table:kind:history)(82=URL)(83=Referrer)
  (84=LastVisitDate)(85=FirstVisitDate)(86=VisitCount)(87=Name)
  (88=Hostname)(89=Hidden)>

<(80=LE)>
{1:^80 {(k^81:c)(s=9)[1(^8C=LE)]} }
[45C:^80]
[45D:^80]


I don't have Communicator 4 installed on this computer, so I'd have to get back to you on whether or not it does the same thing or uses a different format.

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[th.61]

An example of the readable history im wondering about is:

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[Antony]

[quote="th.61"]An example of the readable history im wondering about is:

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UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1