Back in May, we reported Google is working on an alternative for the Chrome History, called Memories. The feature can still be seen by visiting chrome://memories. After building the feature, the Chromium team is now adding it -aka “History Clusters” into chrome://history under Journeys. The company is planning to remove the Memories page altogether later.
Chrome Memories
Initially, Chrome fetched and displayed information from Chrome History, tab groups, and bookmarks.
And, the chrome://memories page also lets you search for visited pages and allows the removal of individual items.
Recently, Google labeled Memories as History Clusters.
Here is how the feature page looks like now.
Journeys in Chrome://History
Google is now moving History Clusters to Journeys in chrome://history and wants to remove the memories internal page altogether after that.
“This change embeds <history-clusters> is now embedded in Chrome://history and makes it accessible via /Journeys.”
In order to minimize the scope of the change and to make sure that the experience is first ironed out, chrome://memories is still kept around and TS transpiled resources in c/b/r memories are copied over. ”
A follow-up CL will remove chrome://memories and move its resources to c/b/r history/history_clusters.”
To see Journeys aka Chrome://memories with new info on chrome://history
- Open Latest Chrome Canary
- Visit chrome://flags
- Find and set chrome://memories to Enabled Limit 1000, on-device and restart the browser
- Head to chrome://history and select Journeys.
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