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Happy Birthday, History Cleaner!

February 21, 2024 | Tags: personal programming software


History Cleaner is 7 years old!

The first version was created on February 8, 2017. I originally created it to be a WebExtension port of Expire history by days. This was when Firefox was first switching to WebExtensions and removing support for XUL extensions.

Now, 7 years later, it has ~16,000 users on Firefox + ~500 users on Chrome, and is part of Mozilla’s Recommended Extensions Program! Version 1.5.0 came out just a few weeks ago, featuring a UI refresh and a new timer mode to delete history on a set interval.

Thank you to everyone who uses History Cleaner!