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Google Chrome address bar is slow, can't delete URLs with clock icon from history

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202626123 views
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Problem

I can't delete history items or visited webpages from Google Chrome that have the clock icon. I recently visited some websites with very long URLs with about 600,000 characters each. Ever since, typing in my address bar has been very slow after the first few characters, even with auto-prediction tu…

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Fix for: Google Chrome address bar is slow, can't delete URLs with clock icon from history

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Manually deleting the History Provider Cache file seems to do the trick. Find it at the following: Mac OS X Windows Vista: Deleting other history files does nothing.

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