Clear Internet Browser History

Solutions for removing all you Internet surfing tracks and keeping your privacy.

What is Internet history?

While surfing the Internet, your browser records all your actions: each website url you typed in Address Bar, every search string you entered in search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN), information you entered on websites, and more... Of course Internet history stored on your PC is useful as it speeds up loading of webpages and makes web surfing more convenient. But Internet history contains details about every website you visited (pictures, videos, text, and more) and it may seriously compromise your privacy if someone else could see your Internet files - he/she would be able to see everything you had done while Internet surfing.

Why you need to clear Internet history?

Information about all the sites that you visited is stored on your computer. Even if you clear history, cache and cookies it won't protect your privacy, as there are files that will continue to store information about what web sites you have visited, what videos you have seen, what cookies have been saved, etc.

Windows temporary directory (Temp folders) stores Windows and other programs temporary files. This directory can become cluttered and contain files from programs you no longer have installed or files which may violate your privacy.

Do you want your boss, co-workers, or kids to see what web sites you have visited, what images and movies you have seen, what files you downloaded, documents and files you have just opened, and many others? If you don't want someone knows what you've done on your computer, you should clear history tracks from your PC.

Microsoft Internet Explorer users

Viewing History

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x users can view their history files by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options", clicking the "Settings" button under the Browsing history, and then clicking the "View Files" button.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x users can view their history files by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options", clicking the "Settings" button, and then clicking the "View Files" button.

Deleting History

• Microsoft Windows users running Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x and 7.x can delete their history files by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options", and clicking the "Delete Files" or "Delete" button. Users also have the option of automatically deleting files each time the close the browser window by clicking the "Advanced" tab and checking "Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed" under the "Security" section.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x users on an Apple Macintosh can delete the history by clicking the "Hard Drive" icon, "System",  "Preferences", "Explorer", and moving the history file into the trash.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 and lower users can delete their history by clicking the "View" menu, "Options", open the tab "Advanced", click the "Settings" tab, and click the "Empty Folder" button.

Mozilla Firefox users

Viewing History

Press Ctrl + H to open the left-side history bar.

or

Click History at the top of the window.

or

Users using earlier versions of Mozilla Firefox can also view their history by clicking "Go" and clicking "History."

Deleting History

Mozilla Firefox users can clear their history by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Options", clicking the "Piracy" button, and under "History" click the "Clear" or "Clear Now" button.

or

Press CTRL + Shift + DEL to open the Clear Data Window.

Netscape users

Viewing History

• Microsoft Windows users can view history by first opening Netscape and click the "Edit" menu, "Preferences", "History", and view the location where Netscape is storing your files. Next, open this folder within Explorer.

Deleting History

• Netscape users can delete their history files by clicking the "Edit" menu, "Preferences", "History", and click the "Clear History" button.

Opera users

Viewing History

Users can view their history files by opening the "cache" folder within their opera folder. Microsoft Windows users can often find this within "C:\Program files\Opera\ ." If you're unable to locate the cache within this directory try opening the  "C:\Documents and Settings\**HOPE**\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile" folder, where **HOPE** is the name of the username you use to log into Windows.

Deleting History

Opera users can delete their history by clicking the "File" menu, "Preferences", "History", and click "Empty now" button. In addition, users can check "Empty on exit" if they wish for this task to occur each time they exit the browser.

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