Clearing old browsing data in Chrome instead of newer data

Question

Currently you can clear browsing data from now up to one day/week/month etc.

Is there a way to do the opposite and clear everything older than one day/week/month?

Solution 1

Unfortunately, it seems that the Chrome developers only catered to adolescents needing to hide browsing history from their parents. Us older people need therefore to use third-party software, or use a database browser to attack directly the history database.

Here are a couple of add-ons that might help. They are not recent, and I do not know if they still work :

• eHistory - Enhanced History (last updated February 15, 2014)
• History Limiter (last updated June 8, 2011 !)

In the Do It Yourself way, see the thread How can I delete all web history that matches a specific query in Google Chrome, where two solutions are proposed :

1. Hacking the Chrome history page itself, chrome://history-frame/, by JavaScript injection, although the described solution deletes all history, so still needs to be improved to work in a selective manner.

2. Using an SQL viewer to manipulate directly the Chrome History database, normally found under Windows as the file %localappdata%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\History, as is detailed in this answer. I suspect that this approach is probably the most likely to work.

Solution 2

You can go to chrome://history/older and Make sure 'Older' is selected. Then you can press F12 to go to developer tools, find "Console" tab and paste and run this code (and wait a while):

var fun = ()=>{setTimeout(() => {document.querySelectorAll('button[title=Delete]').forEach(b => b.click()); console.log('d'); fun();}, 1); }; fun();

It clicks the "Delete" button for each item on the list.

Comments

[w32sh]

Take a look at eHistory extension. You can clear history using a custom date range.

[Totor]

Clear History [Advance Fork] extension