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Clear FireFox Browser History

Hi Folks

Greetings to you all. I have been dealing a project, in which one of the
requirement is to clear
FireFox browser history programatically. Can anybody suggest me, how this
can be implemented in either VB/C#.NET?

Thanking You in Advance

Regards
Vighneswar
Feb 20 '07 #1
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Hi,

vighnesh wrote:
Hi Folks

Greetings to you all. I have been dealing a project, in which one of the
requirement is to clear
FireFox browser history programatically. Can anybody suggest me, how this
can be implemented in either VB/C#.NET?

Thanking You in Advance

Regards
Vighneswar
You mean having a standalone application running on the same machine as
Firefox to do that? Or a web application?

Greetings,
Laurent
--
Laurent Bugnion [MVP ASP.NET]
Software engineering, Blog: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch
PhotoAlbum: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch/pictures
Support children in Calcutta: http://www.calcutta-espoir.ch
Feb 20 '07 #2
You have to do it on the client (JavaScript), since it's the client's cache
you are clearing. The server can have no control over that.

It's never totally reliable, and it annoys the hell out of your users.
Peter

"vighnesh" <vi******@nannacomputers.comwrote in message
news:OE**************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Hi Folks

Greetings to you all. I have been dealing a project, in which one of the
requirement is to clear
FireFox browser history programatically. Can anybody suggest me, how this
can be implemented in either VB/C#.NET?

Thanking You in Advance

Regards
Vighneswar


Feb 20 '07 #3
Hi Folks

Thank you verymuch for your reply, but the application is a windows
application not a web application. Please suggest.

Thanking you in advance

Regards
Vighneswar

"Peter Bradley" <pb******@uwic.ac.ukwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
You have to do it on the client (JavaScript), since it's the client's
cache you are clearing. The server can have no control over that.

It's never totally reliable, and it annoys the hell out of your users.
Peter

"vighnesh" <vi******@nannacomputers.comwrote in message
news:OE**************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>Hi Folks

Greetings to you all. I have been dealing a project, in which one of the
requirement is to clear
FireFox browser history programatically. Can anybody suggest me, how this
can be implemented in either VB/C#.NET?

Thanking You in Advance

Regards
Vighneswar



Feb 20 '07 #4
Delete history.dat??

http://philwilson.org/blog/2005/01/h...y-to-text.html
Peter

"vighnesh" <vi******@nannacomputers.comwrote in message
news:uB**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
Hi Folks

Thank you verymuch for your reply, but the application is a windows
application not a web application. Please suggest.

Thanking you in advance

Regards
Vighneswar

"Peter Bradley" <pb******@uwic.ac.ukwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>You have to do it on the client (JavaScript), since it's the client's
cache you are clearing. The server can have no control over that.

It's never totally reliable, and it annoys the hell out of your users.
Peter

"vighnesh" <vi******@nannacomputers.comwrote in message
news:OE**************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>Hi Folks

Greetings to you all. I have been dealing a project, in which one of the
requirement is to clear
FireFox browser history programatically. Can anybody suggest me, how
this can be implemented in either VB/C#.NET?

Thanking You in Advance

Regards
Vighneswar




Feb 20 '07 #5
Hi Folks

Thank You Very Much for your help. It Worked. I am able to delete FireFox
history.

Regards
Vighneswar
"Peter Bradley" <pb******@uwic.ac.ukwrote in message
news:uA**************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
Delete history.dat??

http://philwilson.org/blog/2005/01/h...y-to-text.html
Peter

"vighnesh" <vi******@nannacomputers.comwrote in message
news:uB**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>Hi Folks

Thank you verymuch for your reply, but the application is a windows
application not a web application. Please suggest.

Thanking you in advance

Regards
Vighneswar

"Peter Bradley" <pb******@uwic.ac.ukwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>You have to do it on the client (JavaScript), since it's the client's
cache you are clearing. The server can have no control over that.

It's never totally reliable, and it annoys the hell out of your users.
Peter

"vighnesh" <vi******@nannacomputers.comwrote in message
news:OE**************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Hi Folks

Greetings to you all. I have been dealing a project, in which one of
the requirement is to clear
FireFox browser history programatically. Can anybody suggest me, how
this can be implemented in either VB/C#.NET?

Thanking You in Advance

Regards
Vighneswar




Feb 22 '07 #6
Your users will hate you. I would.
Peter

"vighnesh" <vi******@nannacomputers.comwrote in message
news:eO**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
Hi Folks

Thank You Very Much for your help. It Worked. I am able to delete FireFox
history.

Regards
Vighneswar
"Peter Bradley" <pb******@uwic.ac.ukwrote in message
news:uA**************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>Delete history.dat??

http://philwilson.org/blog/2005/01/h...y-to-text.html
Peter

"vighnesh" <vi******@nannacomputers.comwrote in message
news:uB**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>Hi Folks

Thank you verymuch for your reply, but the application is a windows
application not a web application. Please suggest.

Thanking you in advance

Regards
Vighneswar

"Peter Bradley" <pb******@uwic.ac.ukwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl.. .
You have to do it on the client (JavaScript), since it's the client's
cache you are clearing. The server can have no control over that.

It's never totally reliable, and it annoys the hell out of your users.
Peter

"vighnesh" <vi******@nannacomputers.comwrote in message
news:OE**************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Hi Folks
>
Greetings to you all. I have been dealing a project, in which one of
the requirement is to clear
FireFox browser history programatically. Can anybody suggest me, how
this can be implemented in either VB/C#.NET?
>
Thanking You in Advance
>
Regards
Vighneswar
>
>




Feb 22 '07 #7
Hi,

Peter Bradley wrote:
Your users will hate you. I would.
Peter
This is a special case, the application deleting the history is located
on the same machine as the instance of Firefox. I think it's not that
bad. Of course web pages cannot delete the History.

HTH,
Laurent
--
Laurent Bugnion [MVP ASP.NET]
Software engineering, Blog: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch
PhotoAlbum: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch/pictures
Support children in Calcutta: http://www.calcutta-espoir.ch
Feb 22 '07 #8
Yes. Sorry Laurent. I should have added a smiley. I wasn't really
intending to be critical.
Peter

"Laurent Bugnion [MVP]" <ga*********@bluewin.chwrote in message
news:eW**************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Hi,

Peter Bradley wrote:
>Your users will hate you. I would.
Peter

This is a special case, the application deleting the history is located on
the same machine as the instance of Firefox. I think it's not that bad. Of
course web pages cannot delete the History.

HTH,
Laurent
--
Laurent Bugnion [MVP ASP.NET]
Software engineering, Blog: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch
PhotoAlbum: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch/pictures
Support children in Calcutta: http://www.calcutta-espoir.ch

Feb 22 '07 #9
Hi,

Peter Bradley wrote:
Yes. Sorry Laurent. I should have added a smiley. I wasn't really
intending to be critical.
Peter
It's OK! I was not the OP anyway, just defending him :-)

Laurent
--
Laurent Bugnion [MVP ASP.NET]
Software engineering, Blog: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch
PhotoAlbum: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch/pictures
Support children in Calcutta: http://www.calcutta-espoir.ch
Feb 22 '07 #10

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