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I can't delete history items or visited webpages from Google Chrome that have the clock icon.
I recently visited some websites with very long URLs with about 600,000 characters each. Ever since, typing in my address bar has been very slow after the first few characters, even with auto-prediction turned off. Or even when the data URL does not appear in the suggested results.
I would like to delete these URLs from my history to (hopefully) solve my problem, but clearing the cache does not seem to work. It will delete everything except these data URLs.
I've also tried Shift+Delete in the address bar, which works for other URLs, but not these.
Apparently they won't work using Shift+Delete because these URLs have a clock icon and not a globe icon next to their name. I'm not sure what that signifies.
1Fast forward 4 years later, Chrome 42.0 still has this problem. I recreated my user profile as a last resort. This did not solve the problem. (Windows 8.1, fast computer, 16GB RAM). Omnibox has approx a second of delay before characters appear. – Shailen – 2015-05-17T11:12:54.333
Please star: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178705
– Shimmy – 2013-03-09T18:18:16.633Sorry to hear you're having issues, hopefully this solution provides some temporary relief. My original issue was fixed by the Chromium team: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=86516
– Jeff – 2013-03-09T21:05:57.323@Jeff I don't see any solution in that thread. – Buttle Butkus – 2013-08-03T02:13:18.610
@ButtleButkus the solution is to update Chrome. there was a bug in the source code which was fixed. – Jeff – 2013-08-08T03:46:08.947
hmm, for me its clearing History from Tools. Deleting just the History Provider Cache on my Windows 8.1 doesn't speed it up at all. – Phuah Yee Keat – 2014-02-27T09:09:47.703