>Suppose a person goes on his home computer, signs onto Google/gmail, and accesses a site that he normally shouldn't access at work ( e.g. www.AdultSite.com)
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>OK, then a day later, that person is on his work computer at his work location, and connected to his work network. He also launches gmail (which the company permits) and signs on.
>Then that person opens a new tab in chrome. The feature of chrome that shows recent web pages as quadrants on the main browser page kicks in....and on the work browser, he sees a clipped version of www.adultsite.com
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>There is no proof that the person actually explicitly accessed www.adultsite.com from his work computer. It clearly came from a login profile associated with his gmail account.
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>When that person connected at work....and it showed a clipped image of www.adultsite.com in the work browser, do you think Google was simply pulling a static image of that site from a Google cache in the cloud....or did Google actually (unbeknownst to the person) access www.adultsite.com, and show a stripped down version of the page "in real time"?
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Have not tested, but lean to clipped image. The URI of the adult site might still land on the HD of the work machine if browsers are syncronizing the browsing history.

You did not ask, but I would recommend setting a pattern of different browser usage for personal and work related usage as standard behaviour (with more than a hint of VM usage thrown into it on private machine doing work and pretty please to admins on work machines if private access is allowed there). And you might mention private browsing option IAC ;-)