HistoryFilter

Keep history and address-bar suggestions clean: delete or rewrite matching URLs with your own rules, locally.

Tired of Google Translate queries, tracking links, and localhost pages crowding your address-bar suggestions? HistoryFilter applies ordered rules to new Chrome history entries: delete a matched URL, or rewrite it to a clean URL so the useful page stays in history. Create domain, query-key, or regular-expression rules, or opt in to five starting templates: Google Translate, UTM cleanup, t.co, a site domain you choose, and localhost/127.0.0.1 development URLs. The UTM template removes only matching utm_* query keys from the recorded history URL after the visit; other query keys and the fragment remain. The first enabled matching rule wins. New installations start with the Google Translate rule disabled; enable it after reviewing its effect. Test a URL without changing history. Adding a template does not bulk-clean old history; a later visit to the same matched URL may remove its earlier visits. For existing history, choose recent days or all history, preview the impact, then confirm a single-use cleanup plan. Export your rules to a JSON file and import them on another computer or browser; imports are validated, and you can add them to your rules or replace your rules. The options page is available in English and Simplified Chinese and follows the browser's light/dark color-scheme preference. Matching and changes run locally in Chrome. The extension does not use analytics or a developer-operated server. Please note: - Deletion is permanent and removes every visit to a matched URL, including visits outside the selected date range. - Normalization adds a new visit at cleanup time. - Previews show totals and up to 50 URL samples. - Browser history sync may propagate deletions to other devices; bookmarks, open tabs and search-provider suggestions are outside this extension’s scope. Source code and issues: https://github.com/milo-ext/HistoryFilter