This document provides instructions for deleting search history in four popular browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 8, and Opera. It explains that clicking the "Tools" tab and selecting "Clear Recent History" deletes the search history in Firefox. In Google Chrome, pressing "Ctrl + Shift + Del" and selecting "Clear Browsing Data" deletes the search history. Internet Explorer 8 users can delete their search history by clicking "Safety" then "Delete Recent History" and selecting the history items to delete. For Opera, no specific deletion instructions are provided.

1. How to Delete Search History
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox is the most popular browser used online, which shares the greatest volume of web traffic.
Let us see how to remove search history on computers using the 'Mozilla Firefox 3.6', which has
been released recently. Here's how Firefox history deletion works.
Click on the 'Tools' tab and select the 'Delete Private Data'.
A window will open in which you click on the 'Delete' button to get rid of search history.
Hope this article has given you a clear idea of how history may be cleared on all browsers. All the
job takes is three or four mouse clicks!
Click on the 'Tools' tab in Firefox and select the 'Clear Recent History' option.
A window will open in which you must select the 'Everything' option to clear all searched history up
till that moment. Then click on 'Clear now' and all history will get wiped out.
Firefox offers an option of 'Start private Browsing' under the tools tab. If you select that option, the
search history storage facility is turned off and your history is not saved for that session.
Google Chrome
Google has forayed in to developing its own web browser - Google Chrome, launched recently, which
is one of the fastest browsers on the web. Here are simple instructions on deleting web browsing
history from Google Chrome.

2. Developers of all the major web browsers have realized the importance of having a facility for search
history clearance in the web browsers to protect privacy of individual users. Every one of the
popular web browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome have features for
web history clearance. This simple action goes a long way in providing Internet security, while also
freeing hard disk space on your computer.
To delete search history from Google chrome, type the key combination 'Ctrl + Shift + Del'.
In the window that opens, click on the 'Clear Browsing Data' button to delete all search history.
Internet Explorer 8
Microsoft's powerful web browser is also very popular among net users. Here are instructions you
are looking for.
Click on the 'Safety' tab in Internet Explorer 8 and select 'Delete Recent History'.
A window will open with options detailing the search items you want to delete.
Select the items you want to get rid of and click on delete. All the search history items will be
deleted.
Even IE 8 offers a feature of private browsing under the safety tab, which lets you switch off search
history saving feature.

3. Opera
To get rid of your past web browsing data on Opera, do the following
Removing Search History From Browsers
One way in which you can protect your privacy on the Internet, is by knowing the procedure for
deletion of search history. In this Buzzle article, I discuss how to delete search history on most of the
popular browsers, that are used by people all over the world.
All web browsers have a facility for recording everything that is searched and they keep track of
information keyed in by you. While this feature is designed to make your web browsing experience
smoother, faster and hassle free, it has a huge downside to it. Critical information like your
passwords, login names and other information entered in web forms and applets, gets stored on the
browser automatically. Hackers can profit from this information trail that you leave on the Internet.
That's why, it's prudent to learn how to go about deleting web browsing history on whichever
browser you are using. With web browsing history deleted from browsers, you can rest easy about
being vulnerable to hacker attacks.