Most users usually spend long hours a day in front of their computers for different reasons, whether working, for entertainment, checking their personal accounts , among many other reasons. A time where you enjoy the Internet connection to constantly visit different websites.
Each of the movements that are made from the computer are left stored in the history of each of the browsers we use, taking into account that most of them have this tool. In addition, all this information that is saved can take up enough space thus delaying the operation of the equipment.
However, this can also cause other people using the PC to know each of your movements on it, which will cause to lose your privacy . That is why it is important to be able to delete the form history of your browser preferably.
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The form history is based almost on those autocomplete suggestions that appear frequently in your browsers when you want to do some search, > This is how suggests websites that you have previously visited or keywords that you have entered in previous searches.
All this is usually quite useful when you want to carry out faster and more comfortable browsing.
But, it can become a problem, since when you have activated autocomplete or autofill, those words that you have previously entered are constantly thrown, taking into account that data such as data is often inserted as names, addresses, passwords, bank accounts , among others.
It is important to mention that this tool is very valuable and interesting since facilitates the use of the browser . However, it can be detrimental to privacy . Therefore, it is recommended to only use on those personal use computers where they are only used by trusted people .
In the case of form records, these basically consist of reflecting those keywords that have been entered into websites visited previously, as well as in web browsers.
They are used with the aim of to facilitate navigation to its users thus throwing different alternatives to what they want to write, whether passwords, user names, web addresses, bank codes , card numbers , among others.
This tool obviously helps the user save time in each of their activities, especially when we know how tedious it is to write the data of each time access in the different web portals that we visit. However, it is considered to be a fairly dangerous tool in the privacy of the person.
While, in the case of web browsing histories , they specialize in keeping a complete record of each of the steps taken during Internet browsing . That is, the web address of each of the sites you have visited is displayed, as well as each of the steps you have done within the portal.
However, this tool only shows the sites you have visited, but does not offer passwords, names, or any other type of data that you have entered in comparison to the form history.
Steps to clean or edit form history in all browsers
Taking into account everything mentioned above, you may want to deactivate the autocomplete function to prevent the continuation of the personal data you used while browsing. This process can be carried out in a very simple and fast way in each of the preferred browsers.
This is how we explain this process in each of the most popular browsers in the market:
In Chrome
If you frequently use Google Chrome and want to prevent this data from being stored, then it is important that you perform each of the steps that we will teach you below to disable this feature >:
- Go to Google Chrome and click on the menu in the browser toolbar represented by three horizontal dots .
- Then select the option of accounConfiguration†.
- There, click on the “Show advanced options” option and then look for the “Password and forms” section.
- Now deactivate the checkbox “Enable the AutoComplete feature to fill in web forms with just one click.”
- To To delete the data that has been stored in the browser, go back to the three horizontal points located in the toolbar.
- There, select the section of “Tool” .
- Now select “Clear browsing data”.
- A new window will appear where you will have to select the check box “Delete saved data from the AutoComplete function”.
- With the menu located in the part You can select only the functions you want to remove or simply delete everything
- Finally click Clear browsing data.
In Firefox
For Mozilla Firefox this process is very similar to Chrome, to do so simply follow each of these steps:
- In the main window of Mozilla Firefox click on the three horizontal lines located at the top right of your screen.
- There you will see a menu where do you select permittedOpciones. .
- Then click on the “Privacy Panel”.
- Now scroll down the window until you get the section of “Clear history” .
- In the clean range scroll the list and select
- Now make sure the option “Forms and search history ” is selected.
- And finally click on “Clean now” to remove all forms.
- The first thing will be to access Opera.
- There we select the menu button where a list of options will be displayed, in it we choose the option of “Setting”.
- Here a new window will appear where we select the “Privacy and security” section.
- Now we move the window down until we get the “Cookies” section and select the option “Keep data only until the browser is closed”.
- Although this option is not the best of all, it will automatically help erase stored data s while using Opera.
- In the main Edge window select the three points located in the upper right corner of your screen. There you will see a drop-down menu where you select the option of accounConfiguration†.
- Now you select the “Clear browsing data” section.
- Here a new window will appear where you will have to select everything you wish to delete, in this case make sure that the “Form data” box is checked.
- To finish, simply click on the deletedDelete.
- To start you need to enter the “Edit” tab.
- There, select the “Preference” section and then click on the “General” tab.
- The following will be to look for the “Delete items from history” option here you can select if you want to erase the information stored for always, months, weeks or one day.
- Now from the “Privacy” tab you can delete all the information that has been entered in the different websites you have visited. In addition, you can indicate if you want to block or allow the use of cookies on these web portals.
In Opera
The Opera browser does not delete any information at the end of the navigation and close the window . However, like the other browsers it gives you the possibility of deleting cookies and other information that allow you to have more privacy .
This requires that you follow these instructions:
In Microsoft EDGE
Another of the most popular and currently used browsers is Microsoft Edge or also known as Internet Explorer. Here too a form record will be created > of all the information you enter while visiting different websites.
In this case you can also delete all this through the following steps:
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In Safari
If you use an Apple device and use as default browser Safari, then you’re interested in knowing how you can start clearing your form history team and thus prevent third parties from seeing your private information.
In order to do this you need to follow these steps:
