How to Clear Your Web Browser History (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera)

If you visit a lot of websites in your favorite web browser and re-visit these sites over time, a small snippet of information is retained by your web browser, basically a memory of the last time you visited the site.

In this article I will show you how to clear your browser history in five of the most popular web browsers.

Internet Explorer 8 and 9

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Click Start, type: internet options.

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Hit Enter on your keyboard.

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Under Browsing history, click Delete.

(Windows XP users, click Start > Control Panel > Internet Options or click Start, right click Internet Options > click Properties).

Google Chrome

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Press Control + H on your keyboard or Click the Customize and control Google Chrome wrench located at the extreme right hand top of the window.

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Click History.

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Click Edit Items…

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Click Clear all browsing data…

Mozilla Firefox

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Click Tools > click Clear Recent History or press CTRL + Shift + Del.

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Click the Details button then check the following: Browsing & Download History, Cookies, Cache. Firefox gives you the option of selectively removing certain information and retaining other parts.

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Click in the Time range to clear: list box and select Everything.

Click Clear Now.

Opera

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Click the Opera Menu, then click History.

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Select the name, (you can make non-adjacent selections), then click Delete on the toolbar.

Apple Safari

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Click History menu, the click Clear History.

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