To judge whether an arbitrary browsing operation is permitted to the browsing operation to a document displayed on a document browsing device, permit only a permitted browsing operation and prevent that erroneous purchase procedures are performed on an online shopping site, etc.

This document browsing control method is provided with: a first step for accepting the arbitrary browsing operation to the displayed document and determining whether the browsing operation can be executed next by referring to the attributes or a document identifier of the displayed document; and a second step for permitting only processing to the browsing operation which can be executed next on the basis of a determination result of the first step.

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