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These entries relate to application cache.

HTML5 introduces application cache, which means that a web application is cached, and accessible without an internet connection. Application cache gives an application three advantages:

1. Offline browsing - users can use the application when they are offline
2. Speed - cached resources load faster
3. Reduced server load - the browser will only download updated/changed resources from the server

This is an Epic Privacy Browser on Android artefact which relates to the Audio Queue feature where Epic will read aloud queued web pages. Epic can read a set of webpages, to the user, using Android's text-to-speech functionality. For any webpage the user wants to read, they click on the menu and select "Add to Audio Queue". When they are ready to listen to the pages, they select Audio Queue from the menu.

This is a Safari browser artefact which relates to user corrections of their autofill data.

Chromium based browsers allow autofill profiles to be saved so that forms can be quickly completed from a drop-down list of saved profiles.

This is a Microsoft Internet Explorer/Edge browser artefact. The Background Transfer API enables advanced download and upload transfer capabilities within an app. See the following for further information:

• Background transfer API in universal Windows apps: what you need to know

• Transferring data in the background (HTML)

This entry relates to the Microsoft Edge browser Collections feature which allows the user to save and group information found on the Internet.

Google Chrome has a security feature designed to alert the user if the password they are using has been found previously exposed in a data breach.

This entry relates to a cookie. A cookie is the term given to describe a type of message that is sent from a website to a browser when browsing a web page. If the server requests that the message persists, it is stored by the browser. When the user re-visits the page, the browser sends the message back to the web server to indicate a previous visit.

This is a 360 Browser cross-domain cookie artefact.

This entry relates to the Microsoft Edge browser Drop feature. The user can send files and notes from Edge and the content is then synced across their devices. It allows Edge users to transfer files and notes between all Edge instances on all devices that Edge is used on. To use the feature, the user needs to sign in to a Microsoft Account and click on the Paper Airplane icon on the toolbar.

A favorite entry is a browser artefact which allows the user to save bookmarks to favourite web pages for later retrieval.

Most browsers can save information every time the user completes a form so that the next time they access a form, they will see a drop-down list of options to choose from.

This is a Mozilla based browser artefact which relates to host entries taken from either the user's history or bookmarks.

 This is not related to the Host scheme found in Microsoft Internet Explorer/Edge daily history entries.

This is a Chromium based browser artefact which relates to entries containing text based content from web pages stored in the History Index database (Chrome v1 - 29).

It can also be a Safari browser artefact containing text based content from web pages that the browser uses for indexing and searching.

This is a Mozilla based browser artefact which relates to URLs typed by the user.

This is a Chromium based browser artefact which relates to logged in predictor entries stored in the Network Action Predictor database.

This is a Mozilla Firefox on Android artefact which relates to login information. When selected, the browser will not save the username or password and will not prompt the user for this information.

This is a Mozilla based browser artefact which relates to host entries stored in the logins.json file for which the user has declined to store login information (Firefox v32.0+).

This is a Mi Browser and Mint Browser artefact which relates to the most visited searches made by a user.

This is an Opera browser artefact which relates to user created notes (Opera v7 - 12).

This is a Chromium based browser artefact which relates to website notifications. Website notifications are pop-up messages or alerts displayed by websites to notify users about new content or events even when the website is not actively being viewed. These notifications can be triggered by various events, such as new messages, updates, or notifications from social media, news websites, or other web services.

When a user receives a notification, it typically appears as a pop-up message or alert in the corner of the screen or in the system tray. The notification may contain a title, message, and sometimes an image or icon related to the content or event being notified. Users can interact with notifications by clicking on them, which may open the corresponding website or perform an action, such as marking a message as read or dismissing the notification.

This artefact relates to permission settings for a website which have been overridden by the user.

This is a Chromium based browser artefact which relates to media playback history.

This is a Chromium based browser artefact which relates to media playback sessions.

This artefact relates to the preferences used by the browser. The associated name/value pairs can be found in the Properties window.

This is a Chromium based browser artefact which relates to resource prefetch predictor entries stored in the Network Action Predictor database.

This is a Chromium based browser artefact which relates to search engine keyword entries stored in the Web Data database.

This is used by different browsers and relates to a user's browsing session.  Depending on the browser, a session can have windows, tabs and cookies which will be recorded as separate Window, Tab, Tab History and Cookie entries.

This is an artefact which relates to Omnibox shortcut entries.

This is a Mozilla based browser artefact which relates to website login username and password entries stored in the sigons.sqlite database (Firefox v3 - 31).

This relates to an Opera browser artefact which allows the user to store web pages to be viewed at a later date (Opera v15 - 26).

This entry type is used by a number of different browsers and relates to an individual tab.  For most browsers, each tab will have a history of visits which will be recorded as Tab History entries; in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge the visit history is recorded as Travel Log entries.

This entry type is used by a number of different browsers and relates to the visit history of a tab.

This is a Safari and Chromium based browser artefact which relates to the top most visited website entries.

This entry relates to video content playback history.