Google Chrome
Go to the three-dot menu () at the upper-right of Chrome to select Settings > Advanced > Privacy and
security > Clear browsing data or History > History > Clear browsing data or More tools > Clear
browsing data. Or type โchrome://settings/clearBrowserDataโ in the omnibar without quotation
marks.
Any of these options takes you to the dialog box to delete not only the history of your browsing but also
your download history (it wonโt delete the actual downloaded files), all your cookies, cached images and
files (which help load pages faster when you revisit), saved passwords, and more.
Better yet, you can delete only the info from the last hour, day, week, month, or all of it to โthe
beginning of time.โ
Opera
Under the main menu in Opera, click the clock icon in the navigation bar on the left to enter History.
Youโll see a Clear browsing data button that offers almost identical settings as Chrome, right down to
the โbeginning of timeโ option. (You can also type โopera://settings/clearBrowserDataโ into the address
bar.) Itโs similar because Opera is built with the engine from the Chromium Project, which also underlies
Chrome. Opera offers a little extra to those who want to go around the web safely, howeverโa built-in
VPN option courtesy of SurfEasy is also found in the Privacy & Security settings.
Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer
Go to the three-dot menu () in Microsoft Edge and select Settings > Privacy & security; in the fly-out
Click the menu under Clear browsing data that reads โChoose what to clear.โ
Here you can get rid of browsing history, cookies, cached data, stored form data, saved tabs, media
licenses, website permissions, and stored passwords; click Manage Permissions, and you can delete
things like sites youโve permitted to show pop-ups.
You canโt delete just one chunk of data from a period, like a day or a week, but there is the option to
โAlways clear this [data] when I close the browser.โ That ensures you have no browser history stored if you close the browser regularly. Pick more data types, and youโll have next to nothing storedโ which is fine until youโre entering the same passwords and 2FA logins over and over (the price of freedom, people).