I use the “Advanced” settings to delete everything, cookies and all.Īfter updating Chrome, I have noticed that I cannot delete the data – when I click “Clear Data”, the circle just keeps spinning round and round. I delete all the browsing data every day, sometimes multiple times a day (even going into the “Cookies” section of settings). 108 on 24 April 2019, I have encountered a problem when trying to delete my browsing data. People can access the option from their browser instances, but the actual cleanup job never finishes/just hangs.Īfter updating Chrome to Chrome. Well, this ‘Clear Browsing Data’ option is reportedly broken according to multiple Google Chrome users across the world.
While the ‘Basic’ option allows to remove history, cookies and cached images, users can opt for Advanced option to wipe out data related to web apps, password autofill and much more. However, both of them support one click browsing data cleanup. Dubbed as Chromium OS (Chrome OS is the commercial fork), this browser centric distro is hugely popular among low cost laptops and 2-in-1 hybrid convertible devices.Ĭhrome OS and the standalone browser itself are tightly integrated with Google’s services (search, DRM, codecs etc.), while the Chromium project is open source and free from those components. Google even created a lightweight Linux distribution fused with the Chromium codebase. Worldwide browser market share (April 2019) Source: StatCounter The Google-backed open source Chromium project and its forks (notably Google Chrome itself) are the dominating players in the field. With the emergence of new web technologies like HTML5 and CSS3, we have seen another era of browser wars. Nevertheless, Navigator retired from the race and it’s codebase kickstarted the development of Mozilla Firefox. Remember those early browser wars? The Internet Explorer versus Netscape Navigator one was quite legendary, as the latter pushed JavaScript to the masses.