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Glossary Forensics

Browser artifacts

Browser artifacts are the traces a web browser leaves on disk: history, downloads, cookies, cache, saved logins and session data.

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Each visit stores a URL, a title and a timestamp in the browser's own epoch (Chrome counts microseconds since 1601, Firefox since 1970), so an analyst must convert them correctly. Together the artifacts reconstruct what someone did and when.

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See also

  • Glossary SQLite
    SQLite is a lightweight database stored in a single file, used by browsers, phones and many apps to keep their data.
  • Glossary Cookie
    A cookie is a small piece of data a website stores in your browser and sends back with later requests.
  • Glossary Unix timestamp
    A Unix timestamp is the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, the "Unix epoch".
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