Hi,
Sorry to take so long to reply - I was on vacation. I am using the latest chrome (5.0.375.125) and the latest ccleaner (2.34.1200). The problem is very simple - when ccleaner chooses to compact the chrome databases (which it doesn't do every time now, as of a couple versions ago - now it just does it when "needed"), it somehow screws up the chrome history search function so that, regardless of search term, no results are returned(e.g. type the following in the address bar to search for "test" in history:
chrome://history/#q=test&p=0
Interestingly, the history itself is preserved - if you type chrome://history/ in the address bar, you will see all the sites visited. It's just that ccleaner is doing something that screws up the searching of the history.
I suspect it's something with reordering the indexes or something, but not sure.
my system is xp professional sp3
thanks for your help - I'd really like to be able to use the compact databases functionality in ccleaner, but for now have had to turn it off.
Perhaps the reason you haven't heard of this problem before is that very few people use chrome right now (but it's growing...).
Remember - in order to reproduce it, you can't just run ccleaner once - you have to make sure that ccleaner chooses to do the compacting of the chrome databases - so you might need to use chrome a bit to get to that point.
Thanks again!
Scott Edwards
Pasadena, CA