Better Browser History is a lightweight Google Chrome Extension to help manage websites that you or your workplace may deem not safe for the workplace.
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Download or clone this repo
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Open Google Chrome and navigate to
chrome://extensions
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In the top left corner click on the button that says
Load Unpacked
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Navigate to where you downloaded or cloned this repo into and with a single left mouse click choose either the
dev
or if you haveYarn
orNPM
you can navigate to the root directory of this repo and runyarn build
ornpm build
. From there select thebuild
directory and chooseopen
in the bottom left -
You're done
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Navigate to almost any page, e.g. http://www.example.com/, and you should now see a new extension labeled with a capital
B
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Single left mouse click the extensions (the capital
B
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Add the domain name of any website, e.g.
example
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Navigate back to
http://www.example.com
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Check Google Chrome's browser history,
CTRL + h
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http://www.example.com
will no longer show up in your Google Chrome browser history
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Right click the extension (the capital
B
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Single left mouse click on any website you may have added to the blacklist
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This website will now begin to show up in your Google Chrome browser history
Q. Websites aren't being removed from my Google Chrome browser history
A. There is a bug that has been around since 2014 that prevents the Google Chrome Extensions API from altering the browsers history unless history sync has been turned off in the browser