BrowsingHistoryView - View the browsing history of popluar Web browsers - Chrome, IE, Firefox, and Safari.
Version 1.42
Fixed bug: ChromeHistoryView crashed if there was an history record with missing URL.
Version 1.41
Added 'Edge History File' button to the 'Advanced Options' window. When you click this button, ChromeHistoryView automatically fills the history file of Chromium-based Edge Web browser, and thenyou can view the history of Edge Web browser.
Version 1.40
Added new option: 'Delete Selected History Records', which allows you to select one or more items and then delete the Chrome history records.
Added 'History File' column.
Version 1.37
When pressing F5 (Refresh) the refresh process is smoother, keeping the selected item and scroll position.
Version 1.36
Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option (Turned on by default).
Version 1.35
Added 'Quick Filter' feature (View -> Use Quick Filter or Ctrl+Q). When it's turned on, you can type a string in the text-box added under the toolbar and ChromeHistoryView will instantly filter the history table, showing only items that contain the string you typed.
Version 1.32
Added 'Auto Size Columns+Headers' option.
Version 1.31
You can now specify the base User Data folder of Chrome (e.g: C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data ) in 'Advanced Options' window for loading the history of all profiles.
Version 1.30
Added new columns: 'Transition Type' and 'Transition Qualifiers'. You can read about the meaning of these fields here and here.
Version 1.25
Added new buttons to easily choose the history file of Chrome-base Web browsers: 'Vivaldi History File', 'Yandex History File' (Advanced Options window).
Version 1.22
Added 'URL Length' column.
Version 1.21
Added 'Opera History File' button to the 'Advanced Options' window, which allows you to easily use this tool to view the history of Opera Web browser. (Opera is now based on the code of Chrome Web browser...)
Version 1.20
ChromeHistoryView now displays the history of all Chrome profiles.
Added 'Profile' column.
You can now specify environment variables in the history file on the 'Advanced options' window, for example: %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\default\History
Version 1.17
Fixed to display local date/time values according to daylight saving time settings.
Version 1.16
You can now click the URL in the HTML report to open the URL in your Web browser.
Version 1.15
Added new command-line options: /UseHistoryFile,/HistoryFile,/UseVisitTimeFilter,/VisitTimeFilter,/UseTimeRange,/TimeRangeFrom,/TimeRangeTo
Version 1.11
Fixed bug: ChromeHistoryView failed to load the history if the history path contained non-English characters.
Version 1.10
Added option to view only the URLs visited in the specified time range. (In Advanced Options window)
Added option to view only the URLs visited in the last xx days. (In Advanced Options window)
Version 1.05
Fixed ChromeHistoryView to work properly when Chrome is opened and locks the history file.
Version 1.00 - First release.
After you run it, the main window displays the list of visited Web pages loaded from the history file of Chrome Web browser.If you want to load the history file of another profile, simply use the Advanced Options window (F9) to choose another history file.
You can select one or more history items, and then export the list into html/xml/csv/text file ('Save Selected Items' option - Ctrl+S). You can also copy the selected items to the clipboard, and then paste them to Excel or to OpenOffice spreadsheet.
| /stext <Filename> | Save the Chrome browsing history into a regular text file. |
| /stab <Filename> | Save the Chrome browsing history into a tab-delimited text file. |
| /scomma <Filename> | Save the Chrome browsing history into a comma-delimited text file (csv). |
| /stabular <Filename> | Save the Chrome browsing history into a tabular text file. |
| /shtml <Filename> | Save the Chrome browsing history into HTML file (Horizontal). |
| /sverhtml <Filename> | Save the Chrome browsing history into HTML file (Vertical). |
| /sxml <Filename> | Save the Chrome browsing history into XML file. |
| /sort <column> | This command-line option can be used with other save options for sorting by the desired column.If you don't specify this option, the list is sorted according to the last sort that you made from the user interface.The <column> parameter can specify the column index (0 for the first column, 1 for the second column, and so on) orthe name of the column, like 'Title' and 'URL'.You can specify the '~' prefix character (e.g: '~Visited On') if you want to sort in descending order.You can put multiple /sort in the command-line if you want to sort by multiple columns. Examples: |
| /nosort | When you specify this command-line option, the list will be saved without any sorting. |
| /UseHistoryFile <0 | 1> | If this value is set to 1, the history file specified in the /HistoryFile parameter will be used. |
| /HistoryFile <Filename> | Specifies the history file to load. Example: |
| /UseVisitTimeFilter <0 | 1> | If this value is set to 1, the filter of /VisitTimeFilter parameter will be used. |
| /VisitTimeFilter <Days> | Loads the history items only from the last xx days. |
| /UseTimeRange <0 | 1> | If this value is set to 1, /TimeRangeFrom and /TimeRangeTo parameters will be used. |
| /TimeRangeFrom <Time> /TimeRangeTo <Time> | Specifies the time range to load the history. Example: |
Run ChromeHistoryView with /savelangfile parameter:
ChromeHistoryView.exe /savelangfile
A file named ChromeHistoryView_lng.ini will be created in the folder of ChromeHistoryView utility.
Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text editor.
Translate all string entries to the desired language.Optionally, you can also add your name and/or a link to your Web site. (TranslatorName and TranslatorURL values) If you add this information, it'll be used in the 'About' window.
After you finish the translation, Run ChromeHistoryView, and all translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
If you want to run ChromeHistoryView without the translation, simply rename the language file, or move it to another folder.
| Download ChromeHistoryView |
ChromeHistoryView is also available in other languages. In order to change the language of ChromeHistoryView, download the appropriate language zip file, extract the 'chromehistoryview_lng.ini', and put it in the same folder that you Installed ChromeHistoryView utility.
