History AutoDelete for Chrome

History AutoDelete is a simple-to-use tool for Chrome and Firefox, which aims to protect your privacy when it comes to your browsing activity by automatically clearing history of visited sites. This is especially useful when others have access to your computer.

What this tool offers in addition to Chrome's built-in options is the ability to filter history by domains. In other words, instead of deleting all history ever, you can instruct History AutoDelete to remove only links associated with a specific domain that might be compromising, for instance.

Installing the addon from the Chrome Web Store shouldn't be an issue. Its icon, once placed next to the address bar, indicates the number of websites recorded by the web browser that belong to the current domain. History is not cleared automatically by default, so you have to enable this option from the main menu. Also, you can perform a manual cleanup or tell the tool to clear all history for the current domain on the spot.

Although the main menu doesn't boast rich features, you can step into the settings area to explore more. By default, the utility allows Chrome to keep history for 60 days before deleting all of this. This number can be increased or decreased (in days). History is auto-cleared when firing up Chrome and once every hour. Unfortunately, there are no options integrated for controlling these times.

You can prevent the app from recording the number of deleted history entries, hide the number of visits in the browser icon, and reset the counter. The list of domains added to the filter for matching websites to get rid of their entries can be managed from a different area. All settings can be reset to default anytime.

There were no Chrome compatibility issues in our tests. Sadly, the addon doesn't show notifications when successfully clearing history, which means you have to check the visited links yourself to see if it worked. However, it has great potential and we're looking forward to upcoming releases.