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Everywhere you turn these days there's a public PC that can get you online. But public PCs also mean that anyone can see what you've done online just by checking out the web browsers history.
Then there's your phone. You're shopping for a gift for your spouse's birthday, but then your spouse grabs the phone to check some e-mail and your surprise gift is ruined.
If you'd like to browse the web, but don't want the whole world to know where you've been, you need to lean how to delete your history.
Here's how you can delete your browsing history in today's web browsers.
=== Google Chrome ===
Chrome's history manager lives under the History menu. Head to "Show Full History," and then click the Edit Items link on the right hand side of the page. That will bring up a form where you can delete all items using the button at the top of the page, or selectively delete each entry using the check box next to visited site.
=== Firefox ===
To delete your history in Firefox, just head to the Preferences menu and click the Privacy tab. Here you'll find options to customize how Firefox history works and even turn it off entirely. To delete your current history, just click the blue link that reads, "clear your recent history."
=== Internet Explorer ===
IE's history settings live in the Internet Options panel where you'll see a button to delete your browsing history.
=== Safari ===
Apple's web browser has a quick an easy link to delete your history. Just head to the history menu and and at the very bottom you'll see an option to "Clear History."
=== Opera ===
As with many other browsers Opera has a dedicated History menu, which you can use to bring up the history page. Once you have a list of your history, select individual domains, or even pages to selectively delete them. If you want to delete everything, head to the main Opera menu and select Settings >> Delete Private Data. Click the arrow to expand that panel and make sure that delete History is selected (and deselect anything else you won't want to delete).
=== Mobile Safari ===
Head to the settings app and scroll down to Safari. Near the bottom of the Safari page you'll see three options to delete your history, cookies and cache. Touch all three and you'll have gotten rid of most of the evidence.
=== Android ===
Like Mobile Safari, to delete history in the mobile version of Chrome you'll need to head to the preferences app, where you'll see an option to delete Chrome's store of visited webpages.
== Conclusion ==
While deleting history will stop others from knowing where you've been it's important to realize that this is not truly secure, private web browsing. For more secure ways of browsing, be sure to check out our how to [Browsing Privately].
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