[Solved] Chrome last 8 'History' not being cleaned.

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2 hours ago, nukecad said: 
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		I think I may have found what is going on here, and it seems to be simply a terminology missunderstanding.


		The 8 entries was the clue.
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		Chrome's "Recently Closed Tabs" feature saves the last 8 open tabs.
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		Is that what you are seeing here - the last 8 tabs that you closed? Does it say 'Recently Closed' just above them? (and History above that).
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		Recently closed tabs are not the same thing as your browsing history and they won't get cleaned with 'Internet History'.


		For example I'll often browse through 20 or more sites all in one tab, those sites are my browsing history not the tab.
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		In Chrome when you pull out the menu you will see it has History at the top then a line with Recently closed underneath it, because they are different things.
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		Do this: Open Chrome, do nothing and close it, then open it again and you'll find that the Recently closed tab list will have gone.


		That happens because the fisrt time you had it open you didn't close any tabs, so there is nothing in the 'Recently closed tabs' list the second time you open it.
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		CCleaner doesn't have a seperate option to clean a browsers Recently Closed Tabs on their own, I believe that it's included in "Session" for the browser.
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		In CCleaner try clearing 'Session' for Chrome.


		You can right click on it and clean just the session from the menu that pops up, or you can tick it and run Custon Clean as normal.
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		<strong>NOTE: Clearing the Browser session will log you out of any websites that you are signed into in that browser</strong> - so you'll have to log into them again next time you visit them.

If you don’t want that then don’t clear the session for that browser.


You are a Wizard amd a damn Persistent one at that............lol That was it !!!!! I checked sessions in the custom clean/aplications/chrome and ran the clean and when I opened chrome the 8 were gone and it looked like Firefox looks when I check history. It it just strange that chrome list the last 8 sessions under the history link under the 3 dots and some sessions inmy case most were sites I visited which to me was not cleaning history.

Thank you so much for all the work you put into this to figure it it out. Now with sessions checked under custom clean will the sessions be cleaned in "smart Cleaning" when I close chrome??

Thanks again for all your help !!!!!!!

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No problem, these little things are sometimes puzzling and you want to find the answer even if it isn't affecting you. 

And of course we now known what to ask about if someone comes along later with the same/similar issue.

Yes Smart Cleaning uses the Custom Clean rules so anything ticked there should get cleaned.

As I say though not everyone wants to clear the session because of being logged out of websites. 

Everyone has got used to always being logged in when browsing on their phones.


(Even I get annoyed if/when I have to log in again to websites on my phone, yet I do it all the time on my laptop, Just shows we can be inconsistent people at times).

PS. I'll change the title of this thead to reflect what the issue was, and that it's been solved.

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3 hours ago, nukecad said: 
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		No problem, these little things are sometimes puzzling and you want to find the answer even if it isn't affecting you.


		And of course we now known what to ask about if someone comes along later with the same/similar issue.
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		Yes Smart Cleaning uses the Custom Clean rules so anything ticked there should get cleaned.
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		As I say though not everyone wants to clear the session because of being logged out of websites.


		Everyone has got used to always being logged in when browsing on their phones.


		(Even I get annoyed if/when I have to log in again to websites on my phone, yet I do it all the time on my laptop, Just shows we can be inconsistent people at times).
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		PS. I'll change the title of this thead to reflect what the issue was, and that it's been solved.
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I don't mind being logged out I use RoboForm a password manager so it's just a click on a button and I am logged in. I don't even know any of my passwords.............lol except my master password for RoboForm.

Thanks again