title: How far back it's possible to get browsing history in Chrome
body: <p>Google <a href="http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=95589" rel="nofollow">claims</a> that 10 weeks of browsing history is kept available in Chrome for viewing in the history tab, and supposedly this is the exact same data that is available to a developer using the <code>chrome.history</code> API when developing an extension.  </p>
  
  <p>What's curious though is I frequently notice that Chrome still styles links as :visited even for pages that I'm certain I haven't visited in several months.  </p>
  
  <p>I tested this by doing a Google search for pages I know I visited about a year ago.  Sure enough, in the Google results page, those links appeared purple.  However, if I open up the history tab and search for that page, it doesn't appear.  This implies that Chrome's storing history way further back than 10 weeks. </p>
  
  <p>I'm wondering if anyone's discovered this too and might know a way of accessing the the full history data, not just 10 weeks.  I have a feeling it's possible by directly accessing the application's sqlite tables, but I would imagine it's impossible for an extension to do that. </p>