How can I clear my browsing history on exit?

Question:

How can I clear my browsing history on exit?

Answer:

Note: Following the steps in this document will clear your Internet browser browsing history each time you exit the browser. Although this may help protect your privacy it will also slow down your overall Internet experience. If you simply want to clear your browsing history once and not every time you exit the browser see document CH000510.

Microsoft Internet Explorer users
Mozilla Firefox users
Opera users

Microsoft Internet Explorer users

1. Click Tools and then Internet Options.

2. Click the Settings button under Browsing history.

3. Change the days to keep pages in history to 0.

4. Click Ok.

Mozilla Firefox users

1. Click Tools and then Options.

2. Click Privacy.

3. Under Private Data check the Always clear my private data when I close Firefox check box.

4. Click Ok.

Opera users

1. Click Tools and then Preferences.

2. Click the Advanced tab.

3. Click History.

4. Set the Addresses to 0

5. Click Ok.

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Removing the browsers printed page header and footer.

Question:

Removing browsers printed page header and footer.

Answer:

When any web page from the Internet all Internet browsers will automatically print the date, time, page title, and/or URL of that page on the header and/or footer. If you wish to have this information not displayed on the top or bottom of your printed pages follow the below steps for the browser you're using. These options are also customizable and will allow you to change what and where something is printed if you want to keep something but remove other settings.

Microsoft Internet Explorer users
Mozilla Firefox users
Opera users

Microsoft Internet Explorer users

1. Open Internet Explorer

2. Press the Alt key to get the drop down menus and click File.

3. Click Page Setup.

4. Remove "&w&bPage &p of &P" from the header if you wish to not have a header printed and "&u&b&d" from the Footer if you do not wish to have a footer printed.

If you want to change these settings or only want to print a specific value use the values in the below table you want in either the header or footer. The codes are case sensitive.

Code	Description	Example
	Leaving blank will not print anything
&&	Print an ampersand	&
&b	Separate text	Left text Right text
&d	Number only date	04/11/2008
&D	Date in long format	Saturday, April 11, 2009
&p	Current page	1
&P	Total printed pages	3
&t	Time	9:12:25 AM
&T	Time in 24-hour format	13:12:25 PM
&u	Page URL	http://www.computerhope.com/
&w	Window title	Computer Hope
Text	Typing any other text prints that text	Example text

Mozilla Firefox users

1. Open Mozilla Firefox

2. Click File.

3. Click Page Setup.

4. Click the Margins & Headers/Footers tab.

5. Change the top three and bottom three drop down menus to "--blank--" if you wish to remove all the headers and footers.

If you want to change these settings, simply select what you wanted to be printed from the drop down menu.

Opera users

1. Open Opera

2. Click File.

3. Click Print Options.

4. Uncheck "Print headers and footers."

Additional information:

• See our browser dictionary definition for additional information about this term and related links.