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How to remove an entry from Chrome’s Remembered URLs from the url bar? – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/09

The delete trick below not just works for the Chrome Omnibox, but for any autocomplete list in Chrome.

[Wayback/Archive] How to remove an entry from Chrome’s Remembered URLs from the url bar? – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] cmcculloh, [Wayback/Archive] Gaff and [Wayback/Archive] User 张 源 – Super User):

Q

I’ve got a URL in Chrome “local.mysite.com” that autopopulates when I start typing “local.my” into the URL bar.
Note that this URL DOES NOT EXIST in my browser history (at chrome://history/#e=1&p=0) because it isn’t a real site and therefore couldn’t ever be successfully visited and therefore never shows up in my history.

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Exporting Chrome History (with the “new” configuration and state file structure), and Epoch dates on various systems

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/02

Quite a while ago, Chrome moved from a structure based on “Current Session“, “Current Tabs“, “Last Session” and “Last Tabs” into “Session_#################” and “Tabs_#################” stored in a “Sessions” folder (and similar migrations for other state and configuration files).

The numbers in the “Session_*” and “Tabs_*” files are time stamps of those sessions, for instance one needs to figure out what the “13310808970819630” in “Session_13310808970819630” and “Session_13310808970819630” means.

Lot’s of web-pages with tips and tricks around the old structures are still around, often surfacing high in Google Search results.

I was interested in a particular trick to export Google Chrome browsing history and had a hard time figuring out the easiest solution.

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Posted in Apple, Batch-Files, Chrome, Chrome, Database Development, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, NirSoft, Polyglot, Power User, Scripting, SQLite, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

DB Browser for SQLite: cross platform, reasonably sized, versatile

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/29

I found [Wayback/Archive] DB Browser for SQLite via [Wayback/Archive] In z’n leren frakske | Tech45 Podcast (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Toon Van de Putte (@toonvandeputte)!).

It is a standalone reasonably sized database browser for the single-process SQLite database (which is itself a file storage replacement for highly table structured data, see below).

With SQLite gaining more and more popularity in standalone application usage (you can even host it inside a web browser session!), I bump in it more often to fix things (more on that in a future blog post), which means that besides the standard console support in SQLite, having a versatile browser is really useful.

DB Browser for SQLite, or in short sqlitebrowser, fulfills that need better than I expected. It’s cross-platform so it works on Mac OS, Windows and Linux (and sort of on WSL2 on Windows, see links below).

Hopefully I can show you how I used it in future blog-posts. For now, and for my link archive, below are just some links to get started.

Oh and the comment: as always with files containing structured data that is randomly accessed you should be really careful when opening them over file-shares or virtual drives like cloud storage.

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Workaround for “embedding” external scripts in JavaScript bookmarklets (thanks @ben_alman).

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/25

Bookmarklets are basically URLs that execute a JavaScript function.

Sometimes you want to rely on external JavaScript files (for instance jQuery), but Bookmarklets themselves cannot do that.

Bookmarklets can modify the current page though, and use those to load a script, wait until it is loaded, then continue executing.

Often that is OK as you want to operate the Bookmarklet on that page anyway, but be careful though that you do not mess up the page by loading an incompatible script: test, test, test!

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Chrome suddenly reported “Unsupported extensions” – need to find a Chromium browser that will long-time support Manifest V2

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/14

Chrome warned me of a list of extensions that it thought were unsupported pointing me towards [Wayback/Archive] Install and manage extensions – Chrome Web Store Help: Unsupported extensions.

It included ones important to me like [Wayback/Archive] Pushbullet – Chrome Web Store and [Wayback/Archive] ClearURLs – Chrome Web Store.

My full local list was at the bottom of chrome://extensions/ where you have to both “keep it” to get them re-installed in the “This extension was turned off because it is no longer supported” state, and after keeping them switch them on plus conforming the switch on to be able to use them.

A quick search revealed this likely has to do with Manifest V2 support: [Wayback/Archive] Why is my Chrome saying the Pushbullet Extension is no longer supported? : PushBullet (that post was 9 months ago, so it looks Chrome is spreading the nagging period over a long time).

This means I need to find a Chromium based browser that plans to support Manifest V2 for a long time. For now Brave indicates that it wants to: [Wayback/Archive] What Manifest V3 means for Brave Shields and the use of extensions in the Brave browser | Brave

Some however think Brave won’t: [Wayback/Archive] If it’s chromium based, they will need to remove manifest v2 at some point… | Hacker News

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Need to write bookmarklet for converting RSS feed URL to PlayerFM import feed URL

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/11

Target format:

https://player.fm/importer/feed?url=%s

Where %s is the RSS feed for a podcast as URL encoding.

Example:

https://whycast.podcast.audio/@whycast/feed.xml

becomes

https://player.fm/importer/feed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwhycast.podcast.audio%2F%40whycast%2Ffeed.xml

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On my list of things to try: xBrowserSync – Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/10

[Wayback/Archive] xBrowserSync – Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!

Things to watch for are syncing actions the browsers perform themselves (like Google Browser Sync integrated into Chrome and Firefox Sync).

It is open source at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – xbrowsersync/api: Server-side REST API that serves requests from xBrowserSync client apps.

Other freemium solutions also exist, like [Wayback/Archive] Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager which has [Wayback/Archive] Pricing — Raindrop.io.

Via :

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The Search Engine for Vintage Computers: FrogFind!

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/12

[Wayback/Archive] FrogFind! (archived as “Server Error”, but working fine on my end) and [Wayback/Archive] FrogFind!

FrogFind!

a pixelated cartoon graphic of a fat, lazy, unamused frog with a keyboard in front of them, awaiting your search query

The Search Engine for Vintage Computers

 

Leap to:
Built by Action Retro on YouTube | Logo by Mac84 | Why build such a thing?Powered by DuckDuckGov1.2

More information at [Wayback/Archive] About FrogFind!

Based on [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fivefilters/readability.php: PHP port of Mozilla’s Readability.js and DuckDuckGo.

--jeroen

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A Couple of Quick Bookmarklets For Viewing a Suspended / Deleted Twitter User – ResearchBuzz

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/04

For my link archive (I forgot where I found this): [Wayback/Archive] A Couple of Quick Bookmarklets For Viewing a Suspended / Deleted Twitter User – ResearchBuzz

Same for [Wayback/Archive] Bookmarklet for who can see your twitter @reply tweet – By @mhawksey and [Wayback/Archive] Ben Alman » Run jQuery Code Bookmarklet » Generate.

–jeroen

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javascript – Open a URL in a new tab (and not a new window) – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/28

TL;DR: you can force opening a new Window over a new Tab, but not the other way around.

Background information: [Wayback/Archive] javascript – Open a URL in a new tab (and not a new window) – Stack Overflow.

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