Date Visited in Search History File

[baumgrenze]

I am trying to establish if I visited a website on 9/2/20.

Today I discovered a small box at the far right of my History file that revealed I had several categories unchecked. Does this mean that I may have no track of any dates I visited that site?

As far as I can tell, their name only shows up when I ran a DDG search for the URL.

Am I missing something else?

Thanks
baumgrenze

[DanRaisch]

To what "History file" are you referring? How do you access it? (ie what menu path or location)

[RDaneel]

As we are presumably talking about the "History" display obtained by Ctrl-H, I just looked at mine in the 2.53.5b1pre nightly builds, and checked the "Columns Selector".
After turning "on" the "Most Recent Visit" col, I now see items with dates back as far as November 2013.
So, one might conclude that the data are being gathered whether or not you ask to see a given column.

[davidb_sk]

Yes, I can confirm this as well. Even though I was not displaying the "Most Recent Visit" column, data was still there when I did turn on the view.

I'm going to assume that, as long as you didn't clear your browser history at some point, if you've visited a website, it would be recorded in the history log.