Clearing Mozilla Firefox´s history
March 27th, 2009 | Published on: Guides
While surfing the internet, private date is stored in the web browser and many people may have access to them. In order to avoid this from happening, we must erase our private data, browsing history so that no traces are left on the computer. You will now learn how to clear or delete the history of Mozilla Firefox.
Clearing Mozilla Firefox´s history
One of the main ways to safeguard your security and privacy whilst using a web browser is to know in what way it registers and records information about your past web-browsing sessions. Usually, a browser has options like a browsing history, a chronological record showing, for a certain period of time, the addresses which have been recently visited. If you want to protect your security and privacy, it’s important to know how to clean out this and other registers.
Here we’ll show you how to clean the various registers that the Mozilla Firefox browser uses to keep track of what you do on the web.
Let’s start by cleaning out the Browsing History. In this image you can see that our browser has visited lots of sites. Whilst cleaning this one out, we also have the option to do the same with some other, not so visible, Firefox registers.
The first thing to do is open the “Tools” menu and select the “Clean Private Data…” option. A window will open in which you should select which registers you wish to clean.
Here we will briefly describe each of the options.
Browsing History: This is the chronological record of previous browsing sessions.
Saved Form and Search History: If you’ve filled in any online form or if your searches were registered by the browser, the data will be stored here.
Cache: The browser’s stored cache memory.
Cookies: The cookie files stored on your computer – used to speed up access to previously visited pages, among other things.
Offline Web Site Data: All the data saved in order to browse certain web sites when an internet connection is not available.
Saved Sessions: All the data for authenticated web-site sessions that were saved on your computer.
In our case, we’re going to opt to clear the Browsing History and all of the other registers, too. To do this, we select all of the checkboxes. Lastly, we click the “Clear Private Data Now” button. This is the quickest way to clean out the private data recorded within Firefox. You can check that the task has completed successfully by reopening the History window. Press Ctrl+H and you’ll see that, unlike before, the list is now empty.
If you want to make some permanent adjustments to the way this data is handled, open the “Tools” menu again and select “Options…” In the next window that appears, open the “Privacy” tab.
Here you can change the number of days that the history is kept for, choose whether or not to remember data entered into the browser and what has been downloaded, and opt to clear out any private data each time Mozilla Firefox is closed.
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