most recent 30 from superuser.com 2010-03-18T00:59:36Z http://superuser.com/feeds/question/69769 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://superuser.com/questions/69769/how-to-clear-your-browsing-history 5 The Green Frog http://superuser.com/users/5770 2009-11-12T21:43:33Z 2010-03-09T14:25:37Z

<p><strong>How do I clear my browsing history?</strong> </p> <p><em>Windows</em> and <em>Ubuntu</em> please.</p> <p>Update: Already do all use ccleaner, clear my flash cookies, etc... Everything minus the sandboxie thing.</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/69769/how-to-clear-your-browsing-history/69770#69770 1 James http://superuser.com/users/11132 2009-11-12T21:47:32Z 2009-11-12T21:47:32Z

<p>For Windows, you can use Ccleaner. It can erase browsing history from IE, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Netscape, Windows history (recently opened files, commands), temporary files, file cache) and in registry cleaning as well.</p> <p>Refer here for more information: <a href="http://www.ccleaner.com/features" rel="nofollow">http://www.ccleaner.com/features</a></p>

http://superuser.com/questions/69769/how-to-clear-your-browsing-history/69771#69771 0 Traveling Tech Guy http://superuser.com/users/5424 2009-11-12T21:48:07Z 2009-11-12T21:48:07Z

<p>On Windows and Ubuntu, you can use the individual browser's cleaning function.<br> For Windows you could also use <a href="http://www.filehippo.com/download%5Fccleaner/" rel="nofollow">CCleaner</a> to get rid of all browsers history, cookies and settings.</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/69769/how-to-clear-your-browsing-history/69772#69772 7 Molly7244 http://superuser.com/users/0 2009-11-12T21:48:09Z 2009-11-25T01:42:36Z

<ol> <li><p>get <strong><a href="http://www.sandboxie.com/" rel="nofollow">Sandboxie</a></strong></p></li> <li><p>install a RAM disk</p></li> <li><p>point the Sandboxie container folder to the RAM disk.</p></li> </ol> <p>run your web browser sandboxed.</p> <p>restart your computer and all history is history, gone for good. really, truly and beyond recovery.</p> <p><em>Sandboxie is freeware, however, if you register the software for even more options, you'll get free lifetime support and updates and you may install the software your license on as many computers you own.</em></p> <p>(this works for Windows only)</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/69769/how-to-clear-your-browsing-history/69878#69878 3 bobince http://superuser.com/users/10551 2009-11-13T03:41:52Z 2009-11-13T03:41:52Z

<p>Ignoring secure-delete (which probably isn't <em>that</em> important) for a minute, the most notable history trace you'll gather that <em>isn't</em> removed by Firefox's “Clear Recent History” option is Flash data storage. The storage control feature of Flash is unfortunately separate and has unusable controls which don't even delete the full history.</p> <p>On Linux you can remove these properly by deleting <code>.adobe</code> and <code>.macromedia</code> in your home directory. (It's a problem on Windows too, similarly requiring futzing around in <code>Application Data</code>.) A good longer-term strategy is to use Flashblock, to stop every untrustted site and ad network dropping unwanted cookie-like storage and history traces.</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/69769/how-to-clear-your-browsing-history/73925#73925 5 Wil http://superuser.com/users/4386 2009-11-22T17:19:10Z 2009-11-22T17:19:10Z

<p>Personally, I see from Molly's comments, you are concerned about the whole infrastructure - logs etc.</p> <p>The first thing,</p> <p>Do not try at work or any machine you do not own. You simply do not know what monitoring tools are installed, there could be keyloggers, or ANYTHING that sends everything to a remote location completely outside of your control.</p> <p>Next, as for your actual machine, you really want to run all the usual tools such as <a href="http://www.ccleaner.com/" rel="nofollow">CCleaner</a> to clear out your local machine from every day objects. This should work well, but there is always a remote chance someone can recover your files - You may want to look in to either trashing your hard drive, or doing a complete wipe with something like <a href="http://www.dban.org/" rel="nofollow">DBAN</a>.</p> <p>Lastly, infrastructure - Logs are kept at many different levels. Your ISP will have various logs that can contain information on sites visited, your routers DNS can have a cache (but it is usually wiped after a few hours)... Your best bet is to use a <a href="http://www.proxify.com" rel="nofollow">web based proxy service</a> or even better <a href="http://www.torproject.org/" rel="nofollow">TOR</a>.</p> <p>However, if someone <strong>really</strong> wants to trace what you have been doing, they will try to find a way - ask ISP for sites visited if they keep logs... if they see a proxy server, they can ask them for logs... Your best hope is an ISP that doesn't keep many logs or perhaps using a VPN type service in a foreign country.</p> <p>All this being said, do not do anything illegal!... That is the best way to not get into trouble for browsing!</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/69769/how-to-clear-your-browsing-history/73939#73939 3 AnonJr http://superuser.com/users/942 2009-11-22T17:37:06Z 2009-11-22T17:37:06Z

<p>Short of setting off an EMP every time you want to clear your history, any system that keeps your history in RAM and doesn't write it to disk will probably do what you want. Its easier to never have something to remove than to remove something once its there.</p> <p>You could use a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BartPE" rel="nofollow">Bart PE</a> disk or an Ubuntu live CD for your browsing - that way when you re-boot there's nothing to recover as nothing was saved to disk. </p> <p>There are still router logs, so you'll want to clear those too. And records of your DNS look-ups, so you may want to go with a service like <a href="http://www.opendns.com/" rel="nofollow">Open DNS</a> where you can turn off the history feature. And still route through <a href="http://www.torproject.org" rel="nofollow">TOR</a> just to be sure.</p> <p>You'd probably get a better answer if you were clearer on what you were trying to do and why. If all you want to do is brows porn without your significant other seeing, you'll get one answer. If you're trying to look for another job from work without the boss knowing you'll get a different answer. </p> <p>Clarifying the question will get you better answers faster than a bounty. ;)</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/69769/how-to-clear-your-browsing-history/74505#74505 0 Mark http://superuser.com/users/6618 2009-11-23T22:16:53Z 2009-11-23T22:16:53Z

<p>DNS entries are cached on your machine. Remove them via the command prompt in Windows:</p> <pre><code>ipconfig /flushdns </code></pre> <p>In Ubuntu (from <a href="http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-clearflush-dns-cache-in-ubuntu.html" rel="nofollow">ubuntugeek</a>):</p> <pre><code>sudo /etc/init.d/nscd restart </code></pre> <p>Also, Flash cookies are stored on your machine:</p> <pre><code>%appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects </code></pre> <p>An easy fix is to run CCleaner with the Flash Player option checked under Multimedia.</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/69769/how-to-clear-your-browsing-history/75114#75114 1 Andy West http://superuser.com/users/19199 2009-11-25T09:06:53Z 2009-11-25T09:06:53Z

<p>Browsing in a virtual machine seems like it would be safe. You could try VMWare, for example. It might be a hassle, and I don't know if the performance hit would be worth it. Plus, you may need another Windows license to use it on Windows.</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/69769/how-to-clear-your-browsing-history/75115#75115 1 Bobby http://superuser.com/users/12567 2009-11-25T09:13:23Z 2009-11-25T09:13:23Z

<p>If you don't want to leave any traces, use Ubuntus Guest-Account-Feature. The guests home directory will be destroyed after the you've logged off. Also, to leave no traces at all, use a Live-CD.</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/69769/how-to-clear-your-browsing-history/75120#75120 0 johnny http://superuser.com/users/17578 2009-11-25T09:31:20Z 2009-11-25T09:31:20Z

<p>I know this isn't a way to remove traces from surfing but rather how to not leave unnecessary traces. I think it might be worth looking into. If you have a computer at home you can tunnel your traffic through this machine. <a href="http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/12/08/ssh-tunnel-socks-proxy-forwarding-secure-browsing/" rel="nofollow">http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/12/08/ssh-tunnel-socks-proxy-forwarding-secure-browsing/</a></p> <p>As others have mentioned, if you don't own the computer it might still be compromised, there can be keyloggers or spyware.</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/69769/how-to-clear-your-browsing-history/75431#75431 0 benjamin239 http://superuser.com/users/12703 2009-11-25T23:21:52Z 2009-11-25T23:21:52Z

<p>Try using Google Chrome in incognito mode. It seems to work very well and I have not been able to find any traces what so ever. Also, in IE, you can remove all browsing data and it works ok then in Chrome, this works as well. I also believe this option is available on Safari and Firefox as well.</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/69769/how-to-clear-your-browsing-history/75559#75559 0 NoCanDo http://superuser.com/users/8924 2009-11-26T11:33:23Z 2009-11-26T11:33:23Z

<p>Fow Windows, CCleaner does the job:</p> <p><img src="http://www.abload.de/img/option1vfxh.png" alt="alt text"></p> <p><img src="http://www.abload.de/img/option2cejs.png" alt="alt text"></p> <p>Gutman (if you are super paranoid) + Wipe Free Space, since your history is in your user-folder, which is usually on C:</p>