[Digerati]

A couple weeks ago, I tried to find out more about how Edge manages history - and sadly, stopped after getting more confused than when I started. I could find no definitive "current" explanation on Microsoft, which is sad. For example, this page talks about managing Edge History. But when I follow the instructions, there is no "Manage history" option.

Outside of MS, I found all sorts of conflicting information, including retention numbers from 999 days, to 90, to 20 days. 😕

As to why you only see 3 days - no clue. If you have CCleaner or another clutter cleaner installed, you might see if they are set to automatically purge your system.

 

[Digerati]

Unless you are restoring the last session from a crash, when you close your browser normally, that information is gone.

Ummm, no - not by default - assuming I understand what you are saying.

I just opened a new Edge session, entered Ctrl+Shift+T and sure enough a bunch of tabs opened too.

If talking about the History feature, in Edge, if you click on "Settings and more" (the 3 dots in the upper right) and then click History, under the All tab, you should see a near endless list of pages you visited over the last several months! If you click the Recently closed, you will see a much shorter list going back a couple days - at least that is what I see here on 2 W10 and 1 W11 system running Edge.

 

[Digerati]

Well it seems the more I learn about computers the more I realize there is yet to learn.

That said, maybe I still am not clear what you mean. I just opened Chrome, right clicked on the address bar and clicked Reopened closed window, and it opened with all the tabs too. Checked History and it was fully populated as well.

If anything, I am finding History entries to be too persistent. It should be much easier to delete all traces of where the user has been from our computer, ISPs, Google, and everywhere else - with 1-click. I know - I'm dreaming.

 

[Digerati]

But i'm specifically trying to find out or locate that normally if a browser crashes which im case it did and you go to history and you do see "Recently Closed Windows/Tabs" it will open that window of lets say 40 tabs you had opened.

I think the answer to that is, "it depends."

It is like why doesn't Windows always put an error code in Event logs? Because some times, it crashes so suddenly, it doesn't have time to sense a problem, determine the event, then write it to the log - it just crashes, hard.

So it may be something similar with History. It depends on how and why it crashed. At least that's my guess and I'm sticking to it!