Investigating Chrome history snapshots

13 Nov 2025

Chrome/Edge browsers can store a snapshot of browser history locally on the user's device before each major version update. For a browser history investigation it's worth reviewing these snapshots as they may contain data that isn't present in the current browser history.

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Investigating Microsoft Teams IndexedDB data

19 Jan 2024

We recently added support to Browser History Examiner (BHE) for parsing Local Storage and IndexedDB data from Chromium web browsers such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. This allows us to analyse the data of some desktop apps that use the Chromium browser engine in the background, for example the Microsoft Teams desktop app.

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Analysing Safari browser history

09 Mar 2023

We recently added support for analysing Safari history from macOS. We have also extended support for analysing macOS browser history by adding support for the 'Simple Cache' format used by Chromium browsers such as Chrome and Edge on macOS.

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Analysing browser site settings

12 Sep 2022

In Chromium browsers such as Chrome and Edge there are various settings that allow you to control the browser's behaviour on a per-website basis. To more easily access this data we’ve updated BHE to include a new Site Settings artifact which automatically parses this data from the Preferences file.

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Examining internet history in forensic images

02 Jun 2021

There are a number of ways we can capture and present internet history data to Browser History Examiner (BHE) for analysis. Whichever method is chosen the investigator will need to mount the forensic image in order to present the internet history data to BHE, as it does not directly support the parsing of forensic image files.

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