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Clearing internet history... help please

38 posts & 27 voices | Started 2 years ago by psychle | Latest reply from ddmonkey

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psychle - Member

Having a little trouble clearing my browser history... using Mozilla 3.6 I go into Tools and select 'Clear Recent History', ask it to clear everything, it pops up with a mesage, do you really want to do this? yep I say, and off it goes...

Trouble is, when I go to the browser address bar and start to type a url, lo and behold it tries to auto-complete it for me... I don't want this, I want all my url history gone, especially as it keeps bringing up the url of a 'gentleman's leisure' site every time a url starts with 'T'

How can I totally clear all my internet browsing history? Am I missing something?

cheers

Posted 2 years ago #
hora - Member

Ah handing back a work laptop sir?

especially as it keeps bringing up the url of a 'gentleman's leisure' site every time a url starts with 'T'

http://www.tats.com ?

Posted 2 years ago #
mboy - Member

CCleaner is your friend...

Download and install CCleaner, then let it run...

Should clean out your computer of all the crap you no longer need/want/didn't know you had in the first place!

Posted 2 years ago #
psychle - Member

nope... home PC, but used by the missus and she's asked that this offending url disappear fair enough but I can't make it go away!

Posted 2 years ago #
psychle - Member

I had ccleaner on my laptop, but it started to really bog it down for some reason? maybe just a glitch, but it was annoying!

Posted 2 years ago #
hora - Member

psychle, we've all been there

Posted 2 years ago #
allthepies - Member

Made sure "Browsing and Download History" is selected in the Clear Recent History "details" bit ?

And time range = Everything

Posted 2 years ago #
psychle - Member

yep, checked all that. when I click the dropdown arrow on the address bar, there's nothing in there, most visited is all empty... so there's no history showing, but when you type in a url, if it starts with 'T' bang, there's the offending url again... maybe it's a bug from the site?

Posted 2 years ago #
mandog - Member

sounds like you may have the offending jazz site saved in your bookmarks

Posted 2 years ago #
deadlydarcy - Member

Go in and manually clear cookies and cache. Quit. Restart. Then Google Chrome Incognito mode is your friend!

Posted 2 years ago #
psychle - Member

where would the cookies folder be?

Posted 2 years ago #
KT1973 - Member

The Hun ?

Posted 2 years ago #
piedi di formaggio - Member

Tentontessa.com?

Posted 2 years ago #
deadlydarcy - Member

My betting is on Tube 8. Actually, I think it's the cache you need to clear. The IT geeks are your real friends here though.

Posted 2 years ago #
eth3er - Member

tools/options/privacy in the drop down menu pick the use custom settings for history/ then start unticking boxes to hide your Hungarian porn addiction.

Posted 2 years ago #
l45key - Member

thinglethpeed.com?

Posted 2 years ago #
psychle - Member

arrgh, it's still bloody there... maybe I should uninstall Mozilla and then reinstall...

Posted 2 years ago #
B.A.Nana - Member

Try what ether said, but then
"clear your recent history"
tick box "site preferences"
select -time range - "everything"

Don't hold me responsible tho!

Posted 2 years ago #
Inbred456 - Member

Next time go into tools and click start private browsing then ahem when your finished and click off mozilla will not remember anything!

Posted 2 years ago #
Englishmastiff - Member

Go to search all files, type in cookies. Once there, select all by dragging over all, right click and delete. It will tell you it can't clear an index file, that is fine, it's the cookies you want gone.

Posted 2 years ago #
ernie_lynch - Member

I bet you regret spending all that time on it in October .........

Posted 2 years ago #
psychle - Member

I give up, I've tried everything suggested above and it's still there... I reckon it's some sort of bug from the site?

I think I'll just uninstall/reinstall Firefox...

Posted 2 years ago #
GaryLake - Member

Silly question but is said site bookmarked? FF will autocomplete off bookmarks too.

Posted 2 years ago #
psychle - Member

nope, no bookmarking...

EDIT: actually... somehow it was bookmarked, hidden away in a sub-folder, I swear I never did this... wouldn't be so silly really

ah well, have deleted the bookmark and it's all sorted now... thanks chaps

Posted 2 years ago #
richcc - Member

Tools - options - privacy settings - location bar at the bottom of the box . You got that set to suggest nothing???

Posted 2 years ago #
duckman - Member

hora - Member
psychle, we've all been there

No Hora, but confession is supposed to be good for the soul

Posted 2 years ago #
timdrayton - Member

while we are sharing:

imagine the scene I am sat at the inlaws having sunday lunch, all the family round the table.

younger brother in law still lives at home.

previous to sitting down to dinner the step father in law had asked me how to view browsing history...

Mid meal he checks his email at the pc which is adjacent to the dining table.

he exclaims loudly "anyone know what a site called grannytranny.com would be doing on my computer?"

all eyes turn to the younger brotherinlaw who goes bright red and excuses himself from the table

Posted 2 years ago #
duckman - Member

Swerved that one well Tim

Posted 2 years ago #
GaryLake - Member

ah well, have deleted the bookmark and it's all sorted now... thanks chaps

God I'm good at the internets!

Posted 2 years ago #
catfood - Member

Id suggest having a seperate browser tucked away in an inocuous looking folder somewhere that others wouldnt bother delving into, save that sort of thing happening in future.

Posted 2 years ago #
phinbob - Member

I've been told about portable versions of web browsers that run on memory sticks.....

Posted 2 years ago #
will - Member

Tim - Classic!

Posted 2 years ago #
grumm - Member

I believe Google Chrome has a 'stealth' mode.

Posted 2 years ago #
grahamb - Member

The linux version of firefox allows you to have multiple profiles (eg "work", "home"). You can then launch firefox with the appropriate profile. If you don't specify one it'll use the default. I'd assume the windows version has something similar.

Posted 2 years ago #
mrmichaelwright - Member

firefox now has private browsing

ctrl+shift+p and it will not remember any history/form detail/cookies/downloads/cache

it even remembers your tabs when you come out of private mode

it's so you can buy nice presents for your other half without them knowing

Posted 2 years ago #