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Helm interface for Chrome bookmarks
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Ability to add chrome history sources? #9

Open ReneFroger opened 8 years ago

ReneFroger commented 8 years ago

Sometimes I'm looking into Chrome history source of visited sites in the past. As far I know, Chrome have a sort of same source for visited sites as bookmarks. So I'm wondering if it would be possible to have the ability to include the history source in helm-chrome, next to bookmarks.

I can imagine not everyone want that, so it could be an optin with (setq helm-chrome-include-history t) or something?

Is that perhaps possible?

iNode commented 8 years ago

It's possible in theory. But AFAIK chrome keeps it's history in sqlite DB which is locked while google-chrome is running so can't be opened even for read. How useful it would be to have this feature available only if chrome isn't running?

ReneFroger commented 8 years ago

sqlite DB? I thought it was deprecated, see also this link.

kawabata commented 8 years ago

Indeed, I wanted that feature too ;-> , so I checked the file format and it seems sqlite3 format, and I gave it up. I think the situation hasn't changed yet, as my machine's Chrome/Default/History file is sqlite3 format now.