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I use plug-ins that can be used to download all the pdfs, images, mpgs, ... in a web tree. This can lead to a large number of downloads when I don't specify a good pattern. As the number of downloads goes up, clearing the download data takes longer and longer as does shutting down and starting up (I started Cent and it took 23 minutes before I could actually use the browser). I have seen this behavior in other chromium-based browsers so I think it is a fault in the chromium engine.
My question/enhancement would be to have a limit to the number of items in the download area where as a download is added to the history file, the oldest download is removed if there are more than the limit.
I am using version 5.1.1130.129 of Cent.
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Found out it's much faster to just uninstall Cent and re-install, re-customize, add plugins, ... than to actually try to handle the download issue.
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(01-12-2025, 08:21 PM)Bong Wrote: Found out it's much faster to just uninstall Cent and re-install, re-customize, add plugins, ... than to actually try to handle the download issue.
chrome://downloads/ just go to the downloads page, click on the three dots in the upper right corner and clear the downloads list there
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oh yeah, and one more thing, you can use third party downloaders like IDM
it will grab downloads and they will not be saved in history
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(01-12-2025, 09:08 PM)QZMTCH Wrote: chrome://downloads/ just go to the downloads page, click on the three dots in the upper right corner and clear the downloads list there
This will cause Cent to become "not responding" for many minutes (up to 25 if download list is > 10K)
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(01-13-2025, 05:48 PM)Bong Wrote: This will cause Cent to become "not responding" for many minutes (up to 25 if download list is > 10K)
use IDM
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01-15-2025, 04:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-15-2025, 05:05 PM by Admini.)
How long did it take you to accumulate 10K+ downloads?
For now Chromium keeps only 90 days of history, but there is no limit on downloads, which means that downloads can be accumulated indefinitely.
By the way, we have a wiping feature(Main menu -> Help -> Wipe browsing data) can be used to deep clean User Data.
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Found a work around. Delete the downhistory via the settings/privacy tab. Kill Cent, closing it down gracefully will take forever. del ...\AppData\Local\CentBrowser\User Data\Default\History and the restart. Whatever is causing the issue, it has to do with that file. It's acting like it is deleting a single entry and then re-writing the entire file, then deleting 1 more entry and then rewriting the file, ...
To answer the question by Admini, about how long does it take to get a large download history, it depends on what is being done. One guy is trying to work on making a better artwork AI, so he will go to a web site (or a search page) and tell a plugin to download all the images meeting a specification so he can hit 10K in a couple of hours. Just browsing the internet, I think it would take forever to download 10K.
