How do I retrieve if the popstate event comes from back or forward actions with the HTML5 pushstate?

You must implement it yourself which is quite easy. When invoking pushState give the data object a unique incrementing id (uid). When onpopstate handler is invoked; check the state uid against a persistent variable containing the last state uid. Update the persistent variable with the current state uid. Do different actions depending on if state … Read more

Android read browser history

Not really an answer but I can tell you what I did. I first clone the browser repo and try to reproduce how they get the history. And I started getting: Permission Denial: reading com.android.browser.BrowserProvider So I added: <uses-permission android:name=”com.android.browser.permission.READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS” /> But it still is giving me the same error. I google it and I … Read more

How to clear browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome) history using JavaScript or Java except from browser itself?

The document.location data in browsers is generally inaccessible to scripts, because allowing access would give any given site access to your entire browsing history. At most you can do a few simple manipulations, like “go to history entry #37” or “go back one page”. But you can’t do “what was the address of the page … Read more

How do you access browser history?

Javascript this should get you started: http://www.dicabrio.com/javascript/steal-history.php There are more nefarius means to: http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070228/steal-browser-history-without-javascript/ Edit:I wanted to add that although this works it is a sleazy marketing teqnique and an invasion of privacy.

How to get notified about changes of the history via history.pushState?

5.5.9.1 Event definitions The popstate event is fired in certain cases when navigating to a session history entry. According to this, there is no reason for popstate to be fired when you use pushState. But an event such as pushstate would come in handy. Because history is a host object, you should be careful with … Read more