FW: about:global in Netscape

[Fellows, Gordon]

   You do have some control over this.  If you hit the expire now button
in options--general preferences--appearence it will clear the dataset.
Hoe far back it goes is controled by expire after x days choice.  This
dataset is what controls changing the color of a link when you've been
there.

Gordon Fellows
      
AISS Library Systems
   fellows at uiuc.edu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign                            (217)
244-6844


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>From: 	Harpo's Fan[SMTP:bdunn at indiana.edu]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, March 12, 1997 9:35 AM
>To: 	Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: 	Re: about:global in Netscape
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>I found the file in my Win95 machine in 
>
>C:\Program Files\Netscape\Navigator\Live3D\Data\globhist.flr
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>I think the important thing, however is that somewhere 
>in Netscape there exists the functionality to 
>constantly keep track of this information.  There 
>should also be, somewhere, a way to turn that 
>functionality off.  Anybody got any ideas?
>
>
>I just deleted my global file and I had 
>to delete it from the Recycle Bin to _really_ get 
>rid of it.  (I could still pull the file up using 
>the about:global command.)  All this time I thought 
>that clearing out all my caches would do the trick!  Silly me.  
>
>Thanks for the warning.
>
>--Barb Dunn
>(nothing I say anywhere has anything to do with 
>my employers unless I explicitly say so.)
>
>
>
>On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Wilfred Drew wrote:
>
>> I got this "tip" from Tip World published via e-mail by PC World.
>> 
>> GLOBAL SLEUTHING
>> 
>> Don't remember the URL of a site you visited two weeks ago? Want to find
>> out what your unsuspecting children do when                          
>> they use your system? You can find out where your browser has been in
>> the past month by typing about:global in the                           
>> address book. The resulting page may be saved by selecting File, Save
>> As, so you can hold it as evidence -- or just keep                     
>> referring to it in the future. 
>> 
>> Why does Netscpae put such items into their program?  That would mena if
>> I left my machine on in my office, someone could come in and see where I
>> have been surfing.  Where is this information stored?  Is it in a
>> separate file?
>> 
>> --
>> Wilfred Drew (Call me "Bill") Systems Librarian (also reference)
>> SUNY College of Ag. & Tech.;   P.O. Box 902;  Morrisville, NY 13408-0902
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