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Occasionally I want to clear my browsing history, but for certain sites I don't want to lose visited links.

For example on websites on the Stack Exchange network I still want to know which posts I've already visited.

Is there a way to delete all browsing history except for the visited links of certain sites?

I could of course manually delete all history entries except for those of certain sites, but this requires a lot of manual work which I would like to avoid.

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I can only speak for FireFox. Click History in Menu bar and choose last seven day ..or more.. history shows on the right. Hold 'ctrl key' and click each link.Should highlight on click. Continue until your finished. Don't click anymore. Let go of 'ctrl key'. Right click 'not left click'. In the pop up window select delete and left click. Highlited links are gone and preferred links are left alone. I do not use Chrome. That you will have to explore. Avoid mistakes...do the research. Good luck, wilson.

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Visited links are apparently stored inside a Visited Links binary file.

Located at ~/.config/chromium/Default/Visited\ Links on my system.

I haven't been able to find a way to delete every visited link from this file except for certain URLs.

What does work is:

  1. Saving a copy of the Visited Links file somewhere.
  2. Deleting all browsing history.
  3. Closing the browser.
  4. Moving the Visited Links file back to the ~/.config/chromium/Default directory.

When you open the browser again all visited links are kept, but other browsing data is cleared.

bas
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