Hide my visit
Internet browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari make a 'cache' of the web documents (e.g., HTML pages, images) that you browse in order to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag. If you want to remove the cached record of your browsing history please follow the relevant steps outlined below:
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer 7
- Click “tools”, "Delete Browsing History", and then "delete all". Make sure to click on the checkbox also delete settings stored by add-ons. Then click OK.
Old versions
- Click on 'Tools' and then 'Internet Options' and choose the 'General' tab. Then click on "Delete..." under "Browsing history". In the 'Temporary Internet files' section, click 'Delete Files...'. You will then get a dialogue box asking if you want to delete just the temporary files, or all offline content. Choose the latter and click 'OK'.
Mozilla family
This includes Firefox, Netscape Navigator (versions 6.x and 7.x) and SeaMonkey.
- From the 'Edit' or 'Tools' menu, choose 'Preferences' or 'Options'. Expand the 'Advanced' options and choose 'Cache' or 'Privacy'. Click the button called 'Clear Cache'.
- In newer versions of Mozilla Firefox, you can easily clear the cache, history and cookies: Hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys, and press Delete (or Del), then choose what you want to remove. Or from the 'Tools' menu, select 'Clear Private Data'.
- For older versions of Mozilla Firefox, go to 'Tools' → 'Options' and click on 'Privacy' (picture of a key) in the sidebar of the window that pops up. Click the 'Clear' button that is next to the word 'Cache'.
Mac Safari
- From the 'Safari' menu, choose 'Empty Cache...' or hold down the Option and Command keys and
press E.