There doesn’t seem to be a way of clearing a whole lot of history, unless it is all of it, indiscriminately.
Currently, as I see it, you can search your history, and it brings up a list with select boxes. It seems that you can select those boxes one by one. However, the select concept is hampered by the fact that there is no “un/select all” box as one would think, and there no command such as “Delete Selected” exists. I thought that feature was in Chromium, but appears not to be here, unless I’m missing some other setting?
Also, it might be good to be able to white/black list sites that you want/don’t want history recorded.
When browsing my history I see reams of hits for sites like facebook, twitter, etc. I don’t really care about them, so I would like them not recorded. However, browsing history to find that journal article I may have looked up a few days/weeks/months ago in that mess is really hard.
Hi @Polar, Welcome to Community!
If you go to brave://settings/clearBrowserData, you should be able to select a time period to delete your history for.
That could be the problem. I don’t see an “X” next to the count.
I think it would be good to have a “blacklist” for not saving any history for certain sites. Gmail.com is a good example, as I have many accounts, and read lots of emails. Furthermore, I can search emails using Gmail, so I don’t really need browser capability for that.
Oh, I see, it shows up if you select at least one. However, I don’t see a button to “select all”. Also, they don’t "all* show up unless you manually scroll down enough.
If you ctrl+A or cmd+A (depending on your machine) you can select all.
You can also select an item, then scroll down as far as desired, then Shift + Click to select anything in between.
Okay, As, you pointed out, I hit Ctrl-A and indeed, they all were selected. Undocumented feature? There probably should be a button, or at least a clue. And in the above bar there are two buttons, Cancel and Delete, which one could surmise apply to the selected history items.
I won’t provide a picture, but if I search with the Magnifying glass, I get the “initial” (not all) matches. In this case the Settings/BraveRewards/History/Bookmarks/Downloads/CryptoWallets bar disappears and the search bar is activated as in the above picture I supplied before. I hit Ctrl-A and it “selects” all visible, and tells me a number of selected. The clear selection X appears in the search bar, but the two buttons Cancel/Delete do not. If I click the tensor product symbol on the right, the search bar goes away. The Cancel/Delete briefly appear underneath the search bar as the search bar is dissolving, and so does the applied search criteria and its selection, and so then the Cancel/Delete bar as no more are selected and you are left with your history without a search criteria.
I believe this is now a bug instead of a feature request.
I found this googling on “select all brave browser history search results” on 13 March 2023 with Version 1.49.120 Chromium: 111.0.5563.64 (Official Build) (arm64), Ventura 13.2.1 on an M2 MacBook Air. At first command-a didn’t work to select all the finds, but I must have had the cursor in a wrong place because it works now. It’s only giving me 150 finds at a time, however. I can scroll and get more, but it would still take me forever to get all of the Google Translate out of my history as I’d like to do. Is there any reason why it couldn’t find all of the instances of something, and not just 150? That would seem to me to be the normally desired function: finding all instances of an undesired history entry and deleting them all in one fell swoop. It apparently doesn’t work like that, but I don’t see why not.
