Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Technology Lesson: Dumping your browsing history when you finish browsing

This is the final history/browsing lesson. My roommate swears by setting your browser to delete browsing history upon closing the browser window. The benefit to this is that you can reference your history while you go, and won't have to worry about deleting your history later. (Assuming that's a concern.)

Here are the quick steps to doing this in Firefox:


Open Firefox. Click PREFERENCES.


Click PRIVACY.

Under HISTORY click the drop down menu next to FIREFOX WILL:

Click USE CUSTOM SETTINGS FOR HISTORY. This is an area you will want to fiddle with, regardless of your decision to delete upon closing.


Click CLEAR HISTORY WHEN FIREFOX CLOSES.

Close the window when you're done.

Lessons for Old People will be taking a summer vacation from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Does anyone have any questions about browser history?

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