Searching for websites that you know you’ve saved or seen somewhere in Chrome can be a little difficult, despite the history overview, accessible through the override menu in the upper-right corner of the interface. When you search for it, it only gives you a chronological view of all the sites you’ve ever visited, regardless of whether a page is currently open in a tab or saved as a bookmark. A future function should change this. It’s called Memories and takes all of these factors into account when using it to search your browsing history.
As reported by TechDows, Memories is available in the latest underdeveloped version of Chrome 92, currently in the Canary Channel, and is still a little difficult to access. Appears only after you have activated a development flag (sub chrome: // flags / # memories), and you have to type chrome: // memories in the address bar to access it. Once you’re there, you’ll see a page that looks pretty similar to the history overview, but with a search focus. It recommends a few terms you might look for, displays the latest tabs, tab groups, and bookmarks, and gives you a small selection of your Chrome history. This structure is supposed to stay intact as you begin your search, potentially giving you more relevant results before you need to dive too deep into your history.
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According to his description, the flag should be available on Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS and Android, but when I tested it on Chrome Canary for Android, I just got an error message when I tried to access chrome: // memories. It seems that Memories is only available for desktops at the moment, but that could change before Chrome 92 remains stable in July. It’s unclear whether Memories should replace the current look of the browsing history, but we wouldn’t be surprised if in the end.
