Hi there
Even after running CCleaner, I notice that when I open a new tab, my most visited sites still appear.
How do I get CCleaner to clear these as well? Makes me wonder what other Chrome history is'nt being cleared.
Anyone also have this issue?
Thanks
StephenK
Has anybody come across this issue?
Are you closing Chrome first, then cleaning it? If not close it, then run CCleaner.
This is what makes me ask:
Even after running CCleaner, I notice that when I open a new tab, my most visited sites still appear.
Are you closing Chrome first, then cleaning it? If not close it, then run CCleaner.
This is what makes me ask:
Yes, I am shutting down Chrome before running CCleaner.
The cleaner for it may possibly need updated, that is if those dev v2 builds are supported which I don't know off hand.
In the Options | Include settings, add the following files for Chrome:
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\Thumbnails
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\Web Data
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\Visited Links
Hi
Can you please let us know which thumbnails are kept that are not for bookmarked sites?
Thanks
Hi
Can you please let us know which thumbnails are kept that are not for bookmarked sites?
Thanks
That, I don't know. Sorry
Hi there
Even after running CCleaner, I notice that when I open a new tab, my most visited sites still appear.
How do I get CCleaner to clear these as well? Makes me wonder what other Chrome history is'nt being cleared.
Anyone also have this issue?
Thanks
StephenK
Hope your ready for a heap of information.........
Yeah, google chrome is advertising/tracking mad which isn't surprising thats googles main business.
But you can stop it all, the one thing you cant really restrict is cookies, anyway solutions are as follows.....
1. Cookies - Wrench/Options/Under the hood - Restrict how third party cookies can be used
Best option at the moment, allow all is obviously bad, and Block all would be an infuriating browsing
experience. ( But if you really like Chrome, Privacy blacklists are in development, which will include
cookies - http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=16932 )
2. Wrench/Options/Under the hood - de-select all those first five check boxes in the privacy section
(although you may want to leave the anti-phishing/malware on, there is potential for this to be used
for tracking purposes but the advantage of using it outweighs the concern I feel).
After 2. above, the Omnibar will function just like an address bar now, and your machine will be more responsive doing less look-ahead with DNS-pre-fetching - Chrome will be quicker (Controversially its supposed to help speed up browsing, but with multiple tabs in their own sandboxed processes combined with a slower machine and low hard drive space it becomes detrimental). And its used by google for URL tracking.
Now for your particular nagging concern you need to be in full incognito mode. The new tab defaults to opening your most visited page, after doing the following instead you will get a message saying 'You have gone incognito...' etc etc, thats because in full incognito there is no browsing history for chrome to build a most visited page from......
Right click the Chrome icon on your desktop/quicklaunch (wherever you launch it from), choose properties, and in the target field of the icon properties left click, then use your cursor keys to go right to the very end then press spacebar once then type -incognito
"C:\~path~to~chrome~\chrome.exe" -incognito
So it should end up like these.....
Vista users
"C:\Users\~User name~\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -incognito
XP users
"C:\documents and settings\~user name~\local settings\application data\google\chrome\application\chrome.exe" -incognito
Three curiosities about this mode you should be aware of.
1. In full incognito you will not be asked to save passwords.
2. The little fav Icons graphics on your bookmarks will not update/save when you create a new bookmark.
3. The Most visited page is completely disfunctional (because no browsing history is being saved for the most visited to use),
Also you need to set a home page, in wrench icon, options, basics, homepage section select Always use this page and in the little box at the side of that type in a preferred home page ( https://ssl.scroogle.org/ for instance ( have a read here http://www.scroogle.org/ for why I use that one ) )
And - Enable the home page button - Wrench/Options/Basics Put a check in the box next to 'Show Home Button on the toolbar', you then get a home button next to the address/omnibar - Useful for when you open a new tab and you no longer have the most visited page.
Have a copy of the chrome icon somewhere else too (without the -incognito switch set), right click, send to desktop, rename it chrome normal. Just for the purpose of updating fav icons/passwords for instance. After using chrome in its normal mode to update passwords/fav icons and before you close it - Clear your browsing history ... Wrench/Options/(I think its on the middle tab now) Clear browsing data, select all check boxes except passwords, choose Everything from the drop down button near the bottom, then hit the Clear Browsing data button. Now when you load in incognito again nothing will be left behind from using chrome normally.
One more thing - Google chrome has a unique ID number when it installs - The following disables it....
http://www.fileheap.com/software-chrome-pr...load-51940.html
Install/use it/then go to control panel/add remove programs and un-install it (not needed after the jobs done)
After the above, sadly you will notice that CCleaner still finds Chrome history to clean out, not as much as before but still in full incognito you would expect nothing left eh?, not so ....
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chro...86f6f&hl=en
No official google chrome employees answering yet, but thats not unusual either when it comes to privacy issues, ask google about something which breaks advertising/tracking potential and they are all over the problem like a rash. Ever noticed how much attention any YouTube problems get with official responses? (see flash cookies below)
Finally -
Google chrome also has no stable extension mechanism yet, add-ons are coming but its all a bit cludgy at the moment and I dont see anywhere any guarantee that the currently available extensions do not break anything with regards to privileges in chrome...... so
If you want a firefox ad-block plus equivalent, heres the best method (and in fact with the following you dont need ad-block plus in firefox either, the hosts file does the same job........
To block sites for everything that tries to access the internet, including Chrome/Internet Explorer/Firefox/Any messengers.... you get the picture - With a hosts file (please dont run away, its easy and takes like ten seconds to update once you are comfortable with it). Another benefit is bad sites and adverts will be blocked also, and you can add your own entries quite easily (more on this at the end).
(this part not required for vista users - if thats you skip this paragraph) - First if you are using windows XP, you need to stop a service running .
Go to Start, then run, type "services.msc" (no quotes), Scroll down to "DNS Client", Right-click and select: Properties, Click the drop-down arrow for "Startup type", Select: Manual, or Disabled (recommended) click Apply/Ok and restart.
Download HostsXpert here..... http://tinyurl.com/ygfax5d
(Theres an Orange Icon next to download here), Your browser will ask to open it or save it, save the zip file somewhere on your hard drive. Then after it downloads right click the saved zip file and choose Extract. This will unzip the compressed files. You should now have a HostsXpert file and a help file wherever you extracted it, these can be moved to wherever you want or just doubleclick HostXpert where it is... it runs from anywhere.
Once HostsXpert is up and running, if the top left toggle button reads Make read only, that means your current hosts file can at the moment be written to, so leave it and you can download/update/edit it. If it reads Make Writeable instead, click it.
Now click the Download button, then click mvps.org, and choose replace (not merge).
A green progress bar at the bottom gets to the end, and when this activity finishes the update is done, thousands of site names have now been entered into your hosts file and nothing on your computer will go to any of those sites, even little adverts which are associated with bad sites on a web page will not appear on that page because their dns is blocked.
Now if you dont want to add your own sites just do 2. below, for adding your own files read 1. below then continue with 2....
1. Use windows Notepad (Start, Run, type Notepad), and start making your own hosts mini file by typing 127.0.0.1 followed by two spaces and then the address of the site you want to block like this..
127.0.0.1 www.badsite1.com
127.0.0.1 badsite2.org
127.0.0.1 badsite2.net
Then go to File menu, save as, and save this text file as myhosts.txt (for example)
Quit notepad
Go back to HostsXpert
Click File Handling button, click Import Options, click Merge Hosts file, and select your myhosts.txt file you just made, this will merge your sites to block with all the ones you downloaded.
2. Now click on the File Handling button, and now click Make read only to help protect the file, and quit HostsXpert
For more information on this subject read here...... http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Ehm... Finally (again), if you want to block Local Shared Objects (Flash super cookies)
https://nodpi.org/forum/index.php/topic,1969.0.html
Aswell as the main .bat file, that thread has loads of useful advice throughout its 8 pages (including advice to stop clickonce functionality if you have any concern about that issue).
The above was probably a bit overkill but hope it helps.
Edit: Forgot to mention Iron, Germany is really privacy concious after the wall came down ...
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_i...ome_vs_iron.php
Have a read of the features v chrome down the page, Iron does not update as much as chrome, but he uses the latest stable and converts the source minus privacy issues. And you still have sandboxed processes - http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_26.html
I am using it to type this. Apply the above tips ref' full incognito/home page etc = Just about my ideal browser, once the privacy blacklist is incorporated it will be.