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The browser history may not, the cache and other local storage may well.

The take-away is simple though: Modern desktop operating systems need a security model where individual applications are sand-boxed and protected from each other.

Legacy systems have security models that protect users from each other, but this isn't the personal computing world we live in anymore.

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Only if major browsers are disregarding HTTP cache headers, which is a pretty major allegation. Do you have any evidence to support that?

You're assuming that all sensitive information is served with sensible cache policies. There's a lot more websites than browsers.

This doesn't make Recall any better.

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