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By George Norman

Added on 10 Sep 2009(915 Views)

I don’t know if you picked up on this yet, but I am a big, very big fan of the Mozilla developed Firefox browser. As such I would like the Firefox users out there that have less than spectacular IT skills, or simply don’t bother to take a look under the hood so to speak, to be aware of all the various options available to them. Firefox 3.5 for example comes with a feature called Private Browsing. While this feature is activated the Firefox browser will forget the following: browser history, search history, download history, web form history, cookies, or temporary internet files. Bookmarks and files you downloaded yourself will be saved.

But what if you forget to enable Private Browsing mode and you spend an hour browsing the web? Privacy concerned users will want to force the browser to forget all about the past hour’s worth of browsing and here is how they can achieve this goal:

Step 1. The first thing you need to do is launch the Firefox browser.

Step 2. In the upper part of the Firefox window there’s a list of menus -> click Tools.

Step 3. In the dropdown menu that appears click Clear Recent History.

Step 4. The Clear Recent History window should have popped up. From the dropdown menu next to Time range to clear select Last Hour. From the list of things to be cleared, check the box next to each item (browsing and download history, cookies, cache, etc).

Step 5. Click Clear Now and you’re done.

Tips and warnings
You can replace steps 2 and 3 with a simple keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + Del.
The data you delete with Clear History cannot be recovered.
There are other options in the dropdown menu next to Time range to clear: last 2 hours, last 4 hours, the whole day, and the option to delete everything.
You can check out a review of the Mozilla developed Firefox browser here.
If you would like to speed up Firefox, a detailed tutorial on how to do so is available here.
If you would like to be able to use Firefox in a speedier manner by taking advantage of some handy keyboard shortcuts, a detailed list of keyboard shortcuts available in Firefox can be viewed here.
Learn how to use Private Browsing mode in Firefox here; learn how to disable site specific zoom in Firefox here; and last but not least, learn how to change your homepage in Firefox here.



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Tags: Mozilla, Firefox,Browser, Private Browsing, Clear Recent History



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