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Google Chrome's history search is somewhat … less powerful than I'd like it to be.
Examples:
These are some annoyances I've found while trying to work with the Chrome search.
- Searching for
superuser.com
returns results fromstackoverflow.com
too. - Searching for
site:superuser.com
does not work at all. "phrase queries"
seem to work fine, but they're not indicated.- Searching for
hashify.me
returns 3 results, none of those actually from hashify.me, whereas searching forhashify
returns hundreds of URLs I visited on this site.
What I need:
- Is there any way to specify advanced search options there?
- Which operators or types of queries can I use to search in Google Chrome?
- If not, can I use some other method to search my history more efficiently?
The Chrome help does not mention anything related.
@Marcx, None of these seem to search text within the webpages. Is there a solution for that? – Pacerier – 2015-02-16T21:29:15.847
@Pacerier whoa, I think this would be absolutely overkill. I doubt you'll find this functionality in History plugins, but good luck. – André Chalella – 2015-06-06T17:29:31.970
12018: History Plus and History 2 are both dead links – rath – 2018-10-09T11:54:20.977
These are actually pretty nice, I haven't thought of extensions yet. Better History seems to work better than History 2, although its search options are not documented. Have you used any of these? – slhck – 2011-11-02T13:51:17.470
they have not a good search option support, but history2 group every urls based on domain name, at least is a little easier to find what you need... – Marcx – 2011-11-02T13:56:09.287
Yes, that's true. Definitely +1, they're very useful. Better History seems to be under steady development, which is nice. – slhck – 2011-11-02T13:57:13.653
added another extension – Marcx – 2011-11-02T14:08:38.070
History2 isn't exactly the best, but it did help me remove all bookmarks from a certain domain. I moved from a dyndns domain to a custom domain and the damn dyndns url kept coming up in the address bar. Deleting the dyndns urls fixed this =) – RyanScottLewis – 2012-06-01T22:00:16.600