history.deleteAll()

Deletes all visits from the browser's history.

This function triggers history.onVisitRemoved just once, with allHistory set to true and an empty urls argument.

This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise.

Syntax

js
let deletingAll = browser.history.deleteAll()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A Promise will be fulfilled with no parameters when all history has been deleted.

Examples

Delete all history when the user clicks a browser action:

js
function onDeleteAll() {
  console.log("Deleted all history");
}

function deleteAllHistory() {
  let deletingAll = browser.history.deleteAll();
  deletingAll.then(onDeleteAll);
}

deleteAllHistory();

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Firefox for Android
Safari on iOS
deleteAll
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 5 (Release date: 2010-05-25)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 49 (Release date: 2016-09-20)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support

Legend

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support

Note: This API is based on Chromium's chrome.history API. This documentation is derived from history.json in the Chromium code.