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Deleting your browser’s history makes your browser run faster and more efficiently. Deleting your browser’s history also erases the records of all the web pages you have visited.

The history of your browser is comprised of the “Temporary Internet Files”, “Cookies”, “History”, “Form Data”, “Passwords”, and “Cache”. Here are the ways on how to delete the history of your browser in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome:

For Internet Explorer:

• Click on “Tools” at the top of the browser window.
• Select “Delete Browsing History…”
• When a window pops up, you will have six options to choose from: Delete files, Delete cookies, Delete history, Delete forms, Delete passwords, and Delete all.
• You can choose which option you prefer, but if you want no trace of your browsing history at all, select “Delete All”.

For Mozilla Firefox:

• Click on “Tools” at the top of the browser window.
• Select “Clear Recent History” (step 1 and 2 can also be done by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Del on your keyboard.)
• There will be a small window that opens with seven options: Time range to clear, Browsing & Download History, Form & Search History, Cookies, Cache, Active Logins, and Site Preferences.
• You can select your preferred option from “Time range to clear”. Then you tick or un-tick the boxes of the options you want to delete. But, if you do not want any of your browsing history to be traced, select “Everything” from the “Time range to clear” and select all the options and then click “Clear Now”.

For Google Chrome:

• On the top right cornet of the browser window, click on the wrench symbol, “Customise and control Google Chrome”
• Select “Options”.
• When a window opens, select the “Under the Bonnet” tab.
• Click on “Clear browsing data”
• Another window will open and there will be seven options: Clear browsing history, Clear download history, Empty the cache, Delete cookies and other site data, Clear saved passwords, Clear saved form data, and Clear data from this period.
• You can select your preferred options, but if you do not want trace of your browsing history, select “Everything” from “Clear data from this period” and tick all the option boxes then click on the “Clear browsing data” button.

Deleting your browser’s history is most useful if you are on a shared computer. This also helps when you don’t want the computer’s next user to know the web pages you’ve visited. For example, if you and your partner are using a shared computer, and you want to surprise your partner by buying a gift online, you can delete your browser’s history so that they won’t discover that you have accessed the specific website and they won’t find out what you have been doing online. No matter what kind of browser you use, it’s so simple to delete the history if you just follow these steps.