How to Clear Cache and Browsing Data

How To Delete Browsing History

These instructions will show you how to delete browsing history (Cached Images and data) in four of the most frequently used browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari).



Google Chrome - **Make sure you are using the most recent version**

 

  1. Open Chrome browser.

 

  1. Click on the "More" option in Chrome by clicking on the three-dot icon at the top far right of the Chrome window.
 
     3. Click on Clear Browsing Data.
 
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     4. In the Time Range drop-down menu, select "All Time". 

     5. Make sure the "Browsing History", "Cookies and other site data", and "Cached       image and files" boxes are checked.  

     6. Click on the “Clear Data” icon in the lower right corner.





 
Firefox - **Make sure you are using the most recent version**
 

  1. Open your Firefox browser.

 

  1. In the upper right corner of the screen, there should be three, thick Horizontal Black bars, click these bars and a menu will open.





 

  1. In the dropdown menu that appears an icon marked History will appear in the center, click this icon to open Firefox's history menu.





 

  1. Within this new window, there will be an item called "Clear recent history" (A quick way to access this can also be enabled by pressing the CTRL+SHIFT+DEL keys on your keyboard at the same time).
 


 

  1. After completing Step 4, a window called "Clear browsing data and cookies" will appear with an area called "When" make sure this time frame is set to "Everything". Make sure “Cookies and Cache” are checked. Then hit Clear.




 

  1. Once Firefox has completed the process of clearing cache and cookies please close down Firefox and re-open it and log back into the browser. 


Microsoft Edge - **Make sure you are using the most recent version**

 

  1. Open Microsoft Edge.

 

  1. Select the Settings and More menu (the three ellipses).



 

  1. Select Delete browsing data.




 4.Under “Time Range” make sure to set it to “All Time”. Under the Check, Boxes make sure to ONLY check “Cookie and Other Site Data” and “Cached Images and Files”. Then click on “Clear Now” at the bottom.



 

  1. Exit the Edge Settings Menu.

 

  1. Close all Edge browsers windows and relaunch Microsoft edge



Safari for OS X - **Make sure you are using the most recent version**
 

 

  1. Open the Safari menu and select Clear History.

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  1. Set Clear to all history.




 

  1. Select Clear History.