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History Cleaner

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Status
  • Extension status: Featured
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Description from extension meta

Deletes history older than a specified amount of days.

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History Cleaner
Description from store

Chrome extension that deletes history older than a specified amount of days.

=== Options ===

* Behavior
* Decides what history the extension will delete when it triggers.
* Either disabled, delete old history, or delete all history.
* Defaults to disabled, so the extension doesn't do anything until you configure it.
* Number of Days to Keep History
* Delete history older than midnight on the specified number of days ago.
* Only has effect if behavior is set to delete old history.
* Defaults to 0.
* Trigger Mode
* Whether the extension triggers on browser startup or at a set interval.
* Defaults to timer.
* Timer Interval
* Interval in minutes between triggering.
* Only has effect if trigger mode is set to timer.
* Defaults to 1440 (24 hours), Minimum 1

=== Permissions ===

* `history`
* Used to clear browser history
* `storage`
* Used to save user options
* `idle` (Prior to 1.6.0)
* Used to detect when the browser is idle for the idle trigger mode
* `notifications`
* Used to send a notification when history is cleared
* Notifications are only sent if the user enables notifications in options
* `downloads`
* Used to clear download history
* Download history is only cleared if user enables the option
* `alarms`
* Used to set a timer for the timer trigger mode.

=== Acknowledgements ===

Icons used in History Cleaner are from Pictogrammers (https://pictogrammers.com/), formerly Material Design Icons. (Pictogrammers Free License, https://pictogrammers.com/docs/general/license/)

Latest reviews

Kristoff Mitchell M. De Vera
Does basically what I asked it for
Cheol Mhia
Does the job well. Enable/disable it when you want Choose to delete only old history. Exactly what I was looking for.
Steven “CRC” Haigh
Used this extension for years. It does exactly what its supposed to do, and well.
Steven “CRC” Haigh
Used this extension for years. It does exactly what its supposed to do, and well.
Oren Yehezqel
Used it on Firefox fore years, now using it on Brave
Contijn Buijs
The only good extension that actually automatically deletes history after x amount of days.
Contijn Buijs
The only good extension that actually automatically deletes history after x amount of days.