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Every page you visit in a MetaDock browser is recorded locally, tagged with the profile you were using. That is what makes the address bar guess well, and it is what lets you answer “what was that page I had open under the client profile last Tuesday?” without opening five browsers.
Press Ctrl+H. History opens as a dock inside your layout rather than as a separate window, so you can tile it beside the browser you are working in without losing your place.
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| View history | Ctrl+H |
History opens as a dock in your layout, so you can tile it next to the browser you are working in instead of losing your place. It is saved and restored with the workspace like any other dock.
The left rail groups your history into time buckets, and a dropdown scopes the list to one profile:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Today / Yesterday | The last day or two, for finding something you just closed |
| Last 7 days / Last 30 days | The usual "sometime last week" window |
| Older | Everything before that |
| Profile filter | Show one profile's visits, or All profiles |
The list itself shows the time, page title, host, and profile, and you can click any column header to sort by it. Long histories load in pages as you scroll, so opening the dock is instant even after months of use.
The search box matches both the page title and the address, and filters as you type. It combines with the date bucket and profile filter, so you can narrow to “pages with ‘invoice’ in them, on the Acme profile, in the last 7 days” in three clicks.
History also feeds the suggestion list in the address bar. Suggestions are ranked by how often you visit a page and how recently, with pages you type out by hand weighted more heavily than pages you reached by clicking a link, so your real destinations float to the top.
Address bar suggestions are scoped to the profile of the browser you are typing in. A personal profile does not suggest your work pages.
See Search & the address bar for everything else the bar blends into that list.
The Clear history button opens a small dialog where you pick a range and a profile:
Because the range is combined with a profile, you can wipe one profile's history without touching the others. For finer control, right-click a row to remove that single visit, or every visit to that address.
Successful navigations in ordinary profiles are recorded, and nothing else. Temporary profiles write no history at all, internal browser pages and local files are skipped, and pages that failed to load never enter the log. Everything stays in a local database on your PC.
If you want a session that leaves no trace at all, open a temporary profile instead of clearing history afterwards.
Every MetaDock browser writes into one history tagged by profile, rather than keeping a separate log each. History imported from another browser joins the same list, and listing or clearing it is available over the automation API.
See Import from another browser to bring an existing history across, and the API reference for the automation surface.