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How can I remove OLD history from Google Chrome?

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Mar 15, 20268195 views
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I'm working on a laptop with a modest hard drive, and 500MB is taken up with Google Chrome "History Index" and "Thumbnails" files. Some of these files are a year old. Chrome offers me the option to remove recent history, but I want the opposite: I want to remove old history. (Ideally I would remove…

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Shameful to Google, there is no way yet. Besides that, all the Chrome databases are just sqlite3 files, and you can use sqlite3 to purge unneeded entries. First, install the client ( ), and then go to Chrome config (should be ). Here is an SQL snipp…

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