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
alarms
- Used to set a timer for the timer trigger mode.

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 1.6.1

v1.6.0 Changelog

[Firefox]

Maintenance update, keep parity with Chrome

[Chrome]

Migrate to Manifest v3
Fix bug where notification would always display when deleting all history (#34) (was fixed in 1.5.1 on Firefox)
Changed default trigger mode to timer
Remove idle support (See #30)

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