Clear Your Browser's History

To help keep your Internet browsing private, you may find it necessary to delete your Internet History. We have provided instructions below on how to do this.

Microsoft Internet Explorer users
Mozilla Firefox users
Safari users
Opera users
Chrome Users

Microsoft Internet Explorer users

Note: Users running Internet Explorer 7.0 and above will need to press the Alt key in order to access the file menu easily to get access to options such as File, Tools, etc.

Viewing History

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and above users can view their history files by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options", clicking the "Settings" button under the Browsing history, and then clicking the "View Files" button.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x users can view their history files by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options", clicking the "Settings" button, and then clicking the "View Files" button.

Deleting History

• Microsoft Windows users running Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x and 7.x can delete their history files by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options", and clicking the "Delete Files" or "Delete" button. Users also have the option of automatically deleting files each time the close the browser window by clicking the "Advanced" tab and checking "Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed" under the "Security" section.

Mozilla Firefox users

Viewing History

• Press Ctrl + H to open the left-side history bar.
  or
  Click History at the top of the window.
  or
  Users using earlier versions of Mozilla Firefox can also view their history by clicking "Go" and clicking "History."

Deleting History

• Mozilla Firefox users can clear their history by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Options", clicking the "Privacy" button, and under "History" click the "Clear" or "Clear Now" button.
  or
  Press CTRL + Shift + DEL to open the Clear Data Window.

Safari users

Viewing History

• Safari users can view history by pressing CTRL+H on your keyboard.

Deleting History

• Safari users can delete their history files by viewing history, and then selecting entries from the history list. Right-click the entries and choose "Delete" or press DEL on your keyboard.

Opera users

Viewing History

• Click "Menu" and then click "History". Select which history folder you wish to view.

Deleting History

• Opera users can delete their history by clicking the "Menu", "History", selecting the history folder they wish to view. Find the entries you wish to delect, select them and click "Delete" on the top of the browser.

Chrome users

Clear your entire browsing history

1. Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar.
2. Select Tools.
3. Select Clear browsing data.
4. In the dialog that appears, select the "Clear browsing history" checkbox.
5. Use the menu at the top to select the amount of data you want to delete. Select beginning of time to clear your entire browsing history.
6. Click Clear browsing data.

Information that gets removed

When you clear your entire browsing history, the following information is removed from Google Chrome and your computer:

• Web addresses you've visited, listed on the History page
• Cached text of pages you've visited
• Snapshots of your most frequently visited pages on the New Tab page
• Any IP addresses pre-fetched from pages you've visited

Clear specific items from your browsing history

1. Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar.
2. Select History.
3. Click Edit items on the blue bar at the top of the page.
4. Select the checkboxes for the items you'd like to remove.
5. Click Remove selected items.
6. Click Done removing items on the blue bar at the top of the page to return to your normal view.