Clear Your Browser Cookies, Cache, and History
How to Clear Your Browser Cookies, Cache, and History
This article applies to: Security & Policy
Clear Cookies, Cache, and History
Internet Explorer
- Click the Tools icon (gear)
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Click Safety, then click Delete Browsing History.
- Deselect (uncheck) Preserve Favorites website data.
- Select all other data or file type options.
- Click Delete.
Firefox
- Click Library , click History, then click Clear Recent History.
- In the Time range to clear dropdown, click Everything.
- In the Details window, click the arrow icon to expand the list, check all of the options, then click Clear Now.
Safari
- From the Safari menu, click History, then click Clear History.
- Click Clear History and Website Data.
- Select all history.
- Click Clear History.
Chrome
- Click the More icon .
- Click Clear browsing data.
- Click the Time Range dropdown, then select All Time.
- Verify the checkboxes for Browsing history, Cookies and other site data, and Cached images and files are all selected.
- Click Clear data.
Edge
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Select Settings and more > Settings > Privacy, search, and services.
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Under Clear browsing data, select Choose what to clear.
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Choose a time range from the Time range drop-down menu.
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Choose the types of data you want to clear. For example, you may want to remove browsing history and cookies but keep passwords and form fill data.
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Select Clear now.
For more information see Microsoft's instructions for Edge.
Opera
The easiest way to clear everything in Opera is to:
- Press Ctrl+H to open your history page.
- Click Clear browsing data in the top-right corner.
- Select what you want to delete and the time range, like recent history or all time.
- Click Clear data.
If you don't want to clear everything, and only want to clear specific information see How to Clear Specific files in Opera.
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