The document provides a detailed guide on how to delete browsing history across various web browsers, including Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera. It outlines steps to clear browsing history, change settings to stop saving history, and utilize private or incognito modes for temporary browsing. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of regularly clearing history to maintain privacy on shared devices.

1. How to delete
browsing history?
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2. What is browsing history?
Every web browser stores the information about the websites
(usually the name and URL) you browse. The primary
objective of saving this is to make you able to keep track of
the sites you have visited so that you can return to the
website anytime.
The period for which the history is kept depends upon which
web browser you are using, for example, Google Chrome
stores the history of all the sites you have visited for the last
90 days. Browser history is accessible by all the people with
whom you share your device. To avoid other to know about
the websites you visit you need to clear browser history of
the web browser from time to time.

3. How to delete browsing history from
Firefox?
 Open Mozilla Firefox on your
device.
 Click on the menu option. Menu
icon is three horizontal line (≡)
arranged in a column at the
rightmost corner of the page, just
below the close (cross) icon.

4.  A drop-down menu will
appear; find and click on
“Options”.

5.  In the left pane of the page,
click on Privacy & Security.

6.  Under the “History” heading click on Clear history.

7.  A sub-window will pop up. Select the time range from
when you want to clear your browsing data. If you want
to delete entire browsing data click on “Everything” at
the last of the Drop-down option that appears as you
click on the field to enter the time range to clear.

8.  You will see the list of all the things that you will be
able to clear. Check the boxes which you want to
erase and uncheck the boxes which you want to keep
safe. For example, if you don’t want to delete login
credentials of your active login then uncheck “Active
Logins”.

9.  As you are done selecting the data you want to
delete and the time range to clear click on “Clear
Now”.
 All the cache, cookies and Browsing history will be
deleted from the Firefox browser on your device.

10. Don’t want Firefox to remember your
browsing data?
 Open Mozilla Firefox
 Click on menu icon and then click on “Option” in the
dropdown list that appears.
 Click on the Privacy & Security tab in the left panel
of the page.

11.  Under the History heading, you will see Firefox will
“Remember history”. Click on the downward facing
arrow after “Remember history” and then click on
“Never Remember History” from the drop-down list.

12.  A sub-window will appear instructing you to restart
Firefox, click on “Restart Firefox Now” and the Firefox
will not remember your browsing data now onwards.

13. Private window in Firefox
You can also use Private Window in
Firefox if you don’t want Firefox to
keep track of your activities on the
internet temporarily. To enable Private
mode,
 Open Firefox Browser
 Click on Menu icon
 Select New Private Window.
 The shortcut key to open New
Private Window is Ctrl+Shift+P.

14. Delete browsing history from Chrome
 Open Chrome Browser either
from your PC or smartphone.
 Click on the menu (3 dots
arranged horizontally) of the top
right corner.After that click on
the History option from menu.
You can also reach history page
using short-cut key Ctrl+H.

15.  In history page you will see the list of all the sites that
you have browsed through Chrome. Select the pages
individually by checking the small square box in front
of the link. To select entire history press (Ctrl+A).

16.  Once you finish selecting the history that you want to
clear click on “Delete” option that lies towards the
top right corner of the page.

17.  A sub window will pop up to confirm that you want
to delete the selected items from history of your
browser. Click on “Remove” to confirm.
 This will delete your browsing history from Chrome
permanently.

18. Alternative way to clear browsing data
from Chrome
 Once you reach the history
page of Chrome (Ctrl+H),
click on “Clear Browsing
data” option in the left
panel.
 A sub window will appear
displaying you the type of
browsing data that you can
delete.

19.  Select the “Browsing history”. If you want to clear
cookies and caches, select them as well.
 Now select the time period from when you want to
delete Browsing history. If you want to delete entire
history, select “All Time” from the Time range box.

20.  Click on “Clear Data” and all the browsing history
from your Chrome browser will be deleted.

21. Incognito mode in Chrome
Browsing web from Incognito mode won’t save any
browsing data in Chrome. If you are browsing any site
that you don’t want your browser to remember, then
you can browse such sites in incognito mode. To
enable incognito mode:

22.  Open Chrome Browser
 Click on menu option (3 dots arranged
vertically).

23.  From the drop-down menu that appears click on
“New Incognito window”.
 The shortcut key to open Incognito window in
Chrome is Ctrl+Shift+N.

24. Clear browsing history in Microsoft
Edge
 Open Microsoft Edge from
the device where you want
to clear Browsing Data.
 Click on menu icon towards
the top right corner of the
page. Menu icon is the
three dots (…) arranged in a
row.

25.  Now click on the Settings
option at the last of the drop-
down list that appears.

26.  Scroll down to find
Clear Browsing data
and then click on
“Choose what to
clear”.

27.  Select the data that you want to erase. Since we are
discussing the procedure to delete cookies, caches
and browser history, check the boxes before
“Browsing history”, “Cookies and Saved Website
Data” and “Cached data and files”.
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28.  After you are done selecting the things
you want to delete and then click on
“Clear”.

29. Open new InPrivate Window in
Microsoft Edge
Just like any other popular web browser Microsoft
Edge also has an InPrivate mode. Browsing history will
not be recorded by Edge when you are browsing in
this mode. To enable this mode

30.  Click on the menu (…)
 Select “New InPrivate Window”.

31. Delete browsing history in Opera
browser
 Open Opera Browser.
 Click on Menu icon that lies towards
the top left corner of the page.
Menu icon is the icon of Opera in
red color.

32.  As you click on the Menu, a drop-down list will
appear. In the drop-down list click on “Settings”
option. This will take you to the settings page.
“Alt+P” is the keyboard shortcut to reach to the
settings page.

33.  Now, click on “Privacy & Security” option that in the
left panel of the page.

34.  Under privacy option click on “Clear Browsing data”.

35.  A sub-window will pop up. In the sub-
window mark all the thing that you want
to delete and uncheck them that you
want to keep safe. Besides this select the
time from when you want to clear data
that you have just selected.
 “Ctrl+Shift+Del” is the keyboard
shortcut key to reach this sub-window
directly.

36.  After you finish selecting the
browsing data you want to delete
and the time frame from when
you want to remove them, click
on “Clear browsing data” and all
the browsing data is now cleared
from the Opera browser on your
device.

37. New Private Window in Opera
Browser
 Click on menu icon at the top
left corner of the page
 Choose New Private window
from the drop-down list that
appears.
“Ctrl+Shift+N” is the keyboard
shortcut key to go to Private
window in Opera directly.

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