History On/Off
Pause and resume history with a click
What is History On/Off?
History On/Off is an effective Chrome extension that provides users with control over their browsing history. This extension acts as a simple switch - click to pause history logging and click again to resume. Furthermore, when the extension is activated, it wipes out the existing log, providing a clear slate. It's a straightforward method for managing browsing privacy with ease.
Stats
Users:
10,000+
Rating:
4.00
(66)
Creation date:
2018-01-08
Risk impact:
Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Permissions:
Size:
32.31K
Email:
si*****@gmail.com
URLs:
Website
,Privacy policy
Stats date:
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Summary
This extension is just a simple on/off switch. Click to pause history logging. Click again to resume. When activated, it clears the log while you are browsing. That's all it does.
User reviews
User reviews summary
Pros
- Simple and effective
- Extremely useful and achieves what was advertised
Cons
- Back button doesn't work
- Doesn't prevent history from being collected, only temporarily conceals it
Most mentioned
- Back button doesn't work
- Extremely useful and achieves what was advertised
- Can't go back to the previous page
- Button "назад" stopped working
Recent reviews
Extremely bad since I turned it on couple days ago (again) I feel like my search engine has been hijacked keeps sending me to different search browsers I tried to delete it but it wasn't allowing me it kept closing the browser ever since I turned it off the browser doesn't randomly go to different search engines and it doesn't say something like Searchgate
Of course it pauses history, but there is one fatal flaw: if you previously visited a website when your history was on (extension disabled), then pause your history (extension enabled) and visit it again, previous visits will DISAPPEAR from Chrome history, with no way to retrieve them!
This is terrible, since I need to find a way to be able to reload a page WITHOUT it entering the browser history AND PRESERVING previous visits! Too bad there is no way to do this, especially as Chrome has become much more aggressive about updating itself, and there is no way I can hide that Update button in the corner for too long. I would have been comfortable about updating Chrome *without* overwriting my last visits to my open tabs by using this extension, if only previous visites WERE NOT REMOVED!
I hope you will be able to fix this if you can, since it is a most infuriating behaviour of Chrome.
Safety
Risk impact
History On/Off is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
History On/Off has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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