Extension to selectively delete history?
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Can anyone recommend an extension (or, if it's already built-in, show me how) to selectively remove history records? Here's my problem:
I love keeping history records of browsing; it's useful to find the spec of those headphones I looked at a year ago. But my history is now very long and too difficult to search because ...
... some sites I visit often and/or they create loads of entries in history that are really ephemeral and I don't need to store (for example: wandering around Google maps; daily weather reports; banks, etc. ). They are sort of 'junk' records that I won't revisit.
So what I want to do (manually) is from time to time click a button that deletes all history records on my blacklist of keywords. So the effect would be something like: "Delete all history records containing the title text "Google maps" OR "Accuweather" OR "HSBC" ... ".
Any ideas? TIA
Edited to add: Yes, I know I can use the search box to find all the records with text XYZ and delete them manually. I'd like to automate that.
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@megadyne , not a specific one, but I use the Site Bleacher Extension, which delete automatically all the data from the websites you visit (cookies, local storages, IndexedDBs, service workers, cache storages, filesystems and webSQLs), except from the whitelisted ones.
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@catweazle - thank you; yes I took a look at that but if I've understood it, it does the opposite of what I want: it deletes all except whitelisted sites. I want to delete only blacklisted sites.
This is because I know I don't want to keep, say, transient Google map records where I found a route from A to B, and I don't always know which sites I want to preserve.
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@megadyne , blacklist sites would not be very practical, since in the vast majority of the sites you visit, you only do it occasionally, it is in these where you are not interested in having residual data. The sites that you visit frequently are much less and it is in daily or habitual visit sites that it is not so important to erase the data and you can add it to the white list. This extension even partially whitelists a page.
I visit more than 500 pages daily, it would be a hassle to have to blacklit each one separately, easier to whitelist the 10 pages I visit regularly, if needed. Where no exist lo-in ther is not needed to whitelist the page, the e3xtension no block the funcionality of a page, only delete its data when you leave.
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@catweazle Thanks again! I respectfully disagree.
The problem with, say, Google maps is that browsing, zooming, streetview, routing, using different layers, all create dozens and dozens of records in history for what is, essentially, a single visit. I do that often enough that it's a nuisance.
Likewise there are other sites that I need to check often, such as weather forecasting sites, that generate plenty of links if I switch dates, times, locations, scale, etc. In short, there are a dozen or so sites that generate a disproportionate number of the records that I don't want to keep for future reference.
At the moment I delete them by repetitively using the search box, select, delete. It gets tedious, which is why I would like to automate it.
I'm quite happy to keep the other records, even if - or even because - I only visit them occasionally. A year or so ago I found a shop selling the kind of guitar strings I like but I forgot the name of the shop. It was a pain to find that shop, and a global search on "guitar strings" ends up with a million hits. But somewhere in my search history I've got the brand-name of the strings ... I'm happy to store that info.
So I really do want to just delete all the records generated by a relatively small number of sites that I could identify fairly easily.
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@megadyne , exactly, Site Bleacher delete all these data by default when you leave this pages.
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@catweazle OK, thanks. I'll take a closer look.
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