Why Doesn't History Display Every Visit to Every Web Page?

[carla_rogers]

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My question is: Why doesn’t history show every visit to every web page?

History->Show Full History, only some of the page visits are shown. Why is that?

How can this issue be reproduced?

STEP 1: Visit these three urls in this order:

1. https://wordpress.com/
2. https://www.petfinder.com/cats/cat-care/kitten-care-must-know-tips-for-raising-kittens/
3. https://www.chase.com/
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   STEP 2: Menu History → Show Full History

Expected: The four urls used in step 1 are the most recent four listed.
Actual: As expected

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STEP 3. Enter this url (same as the 3rd url used in Step 1):

1. https://www.petfinder.com/cats/cat-care/kitten-care-must-know-tips-for-raising-kittens/
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   STEP 4: . Menu History → Show Full History

Expected: These five most recent page visits listed per above.
Actual: Only one visit to the kittens url is shown, even though it has been visited twice. WHY?

What happened to the Kittens visit between WordPress and Chase?

[Mattches]

@carla_rogers,
I believe that this is because the page is static and still stored in the browsers cache. When you visit the site again, it is fetched again and moved to the top of the list. This is the expected behavior — you can see the same behavior in Chrome and other chromium based browsers as well.