About this extension

History Cleaner

Firefox addon that deletes history older than a specified amount of
days.

Options

Behavior
- Decides what history the extension will delete when it triggers.
- Either disabled, delete old history, or delete all history.
- Defaults to disabled, so the extension doesn’t do anything until you configure it.
Number of Days to Keep History
- Delete history older than midnight on the specified number of days ago.
- Only has effect if behavior is set to delete old history.
- Defaults to 0.
Trigger Mode
- Whether the extension triggers on idle, on browser startup, or at a set interval.
- Defaults to idle.
Idle Length
- Amount of time in seconds the browser should idle before triggering.
- Only has effect if trigger mode is set to idle.
- Defaults to 60, minimum 15.
Timer Interval
- Interval in minutes between triggering.
- Only has effect if trigger mode is set to timer.
- Defaults to 1440 (24 hours), Minimum 1

Permissions

history
- Used to clear browser history
storage
- Used to save user options
idle
- Used to detect when the browser is idle for the idle trigger mode
notifications
- Used to send a notification when history is cleared
- Notifications are only sent if the user enables notifications in options
downloads
- Used to clear download history
- Download history is only cleared if user enables the option

Acknowledgements

Icons used in History Cleaner are from Pictogrammers, formerly Material Design Icons. (Pictogrammers Free License)

Links

Available for Firefox, Available for Chrome

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Release notes for 1.7.0

<p>v1.7.0 Changelog</p>

<p>[Chrome]</p>

Change default icon.
Disable theme icon, as theme icons aren’t supported in Chrome.
[Known Issue] The optional permission checkboxes close the popup in
Chrome. They should work as expected, but you may want to
toggle them from chrome://extensions instead.