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Objective site address found in history file in my son's Mac pro but he confirm that he did not surf those site. As a consequence he was reprimanded by his school principal. Is that possible?

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My child's school found a couple of porn site in his firefox history file. But he claimed he did not surf those site and it could be pop-ups, when he was playing with the game site, etc. The school claim that pop-ups will not leave site address in history file and conclude that he had surfed porn site. He is thirteen years old and was using a Mac Pro.

Is it possible that the porn address got into his history file without him surfing the porn site? I need to proof his innocent if he has been wrongly punished.

Best regards K Tan

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Not sure how often

== Some record in March 10

My child's school found a couple of porn site in his firefox history file. But he claimed he did not surf those site and it could be pop-ups, when he was playing with the game site, etc. The school claim that pop-ups will not leave site address in history file and conclude that he had surfed porn site. He is thirteen years old and was using a Mac Pro. Is it possible that the porn address got into his history file without him surfing the porn site? I need to proof his innocent if he has been wrongly punished. Best regards K Tan == This happened == Not sure how often == Some record in March 10

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The URLs of pop-ups are logged in the history file.

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Chris, Can you confirm that it is the case even if you do not click on the pop ups?

Thanks for your answer.

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On a Google search result site the first result may be prefetched automatically. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/network.prefetch-next

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Link_prefetching_FAQ