Hey folks. While working I needed to find a historical page in my Chromium browser history and failed. I thought “here we go again” and decided to share some quick tips for users of Ungoogled Chromium at the year’s end.
- I run into this issue from time to time on computers where I use Chromium. The Chromium browser will keep your browsing history only for 90 days and deletes everything that’s older. This is a hard-coded limit in the source code.
However, for Chromium’s Ungoogled sibling there’s actually a flag which allows you to disable that 90-day limit and you can keep your browsing history forever.
Open “chrome://flags/#keep-old-history” in chromium-ungoogled and toggle its value to “On”. - The first time you run Ungoogled Chromium, it shows you a startup page full of helpful information to ease the switch from Chrome, such as how to install the Chrome Web Store. But that page does not return later and it’s not available in the menu.
You can however always go back to that page by opening “chrome://ungoogled-first-run/” in chromium-ungoogled.
Nothing fancy, just thought to share this.
Be safe during the New Year’s Eve fireworks.
Eric
Thanks Eric! Blessed Xmas and happy new years to you and your fam. Hope you’re getting some rest too.
Thanks Eric, there are lots more, see
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/flags.md
By the way, have you managed to get chromecast working with the latest versions? Can mDNS be enabled? I haven’t tried yet because I haven’t got a chromecast device myself but sometimes use it at friends or family’s houses.
Casting to a networked TV set (with a ChromeCast device attached) works just fine from Ungoogled Chromium in my own LAN.
Fijne jaarswisseling gewenst trouwens.
Thanks
Hi Eric,
Best wishes for 2025
Thank you for sharing Linux/Slackware knowledge in your blog.
Thanks Eric and happy New Year!!!