Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is ClickChronicle?
ClickChronicle keeps a record of your web browsing and allows you to search all the web pages that you have visited.

2. How does ClickChronicle work?
ClickChronicle has 2 parts: the click-recording extension for Firefox and the clickchronicle.com web application. Once installed the extension securely sends the web address of each page that you visit to clickchronicle.com. Once clickchronicle.com receives a click from the extension, it indexes the page so you can search (and find) it later.

3. How do I use ClickChronicle?
To use ClickChronicle you have to create an account at clickchronicle.com: signup and install the clickchronicle firefox extension

4. What about my privacy?
At ClickChronicle, you own your data. Your clicks belong to you and we don't share them with others. Your data is not trapped at ClickChronicle and at any point you can download or erase all the clicks you have stored with us. Divmod (ClickChronicle's parent) is a member of attentiontrust.org, an organization founded to protect privacy and rights to data.

ClickChronicle does aggreagate anonymous click data to help us tune the system and for features like our "What's popular?" section, however there is no way for someone to find out who contributed which click. You can also opt out of the anonymous click aggregation by logging in and going to the Preferences section of clickchronicle.com.

ClickChronicle is open-source and, if you are REALLY paranoid, you can download and run it yourself.

5. Is ClickChronicle secure?
Yes. ClickChronicle uses encrypted connections to send your click data to our server. We also use encrypted connections when you log in to search and browse your data. For encryption we use 128-bit https, the same security that is used by sites like Amazon and Ebay for credit card transactions.

6. Are there any sites that are not recorded by ClickChronicle?
Yes. If a site requires a login (such as your online banking site) we can not record the information since we can not log in as you (only you can do that).

7. Can I exclude certain sites from being recorded?
Yes. Once logged into clickchronicle.com it is easy to configure specific sites to be ignored.

8. Is there a limit to number of clicks recorded?
Yes. Initially ClickChronicle will remember and index your last 1000 clicks. Once you reach 1000 we will forget the oldest clicks first.

9. Is there any way to increase the 1000 click limit?
Yes. You can sign up for our paid service. There will also be bonuses and incentive programmes to reward fanatical users.

10. What are the differences between the free service and the paid service?
The paid service will offer far deeper history. It will also provides a cache of visited pages so if an article moves or a site goes down you can still find the information you were looking for.

11. What technology is used by ClickChronicle?
ClickChronicle is brought to you by Divmod. It uses the Python programming language, the Twisted networking framework, Divmod Axiom, Divmod Nevow, Divmod Mantissa, Xapian, SQLite, MochiKit, Zope Interfaces and Ubuntu.