How do I clear my Internet browser history?

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As you browse the Internet, each of the items you view are saved
locally on your hard disk drive. This helps web pages you visit
frequently load faster by loading the files from you hard disk drive
instead of having to downloading the web page again.
To conserve hard disk drive space or to help keep their Internet
browsing private, users may find it necessary to delete their
Internet History, below is how to do this.

Microsoft Internet Explorer users
Mozilla Firefox users
Netscape Navigator users
Opera users

Microsoft Internet Explorer users

Note: Users running Internet Explorer 7.0 and above will need
to press the Alt key in order to access the file menu easily to
get access to options such as File, Tools, etc.

Viewing History

    * Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and above users can view
their history files by clicking the "Tools" menu,
"Internet Options", clicking the "Settings" button under the
Browsing history, and then clicking the "View Files" button.
    * Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x users can view their
history files by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options",
clicking the "Settings" button, and then clicking the
"View Files" button.

Deleting History
    * Microsoft Windows users running Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x and 7.x
can delete their history files by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Internet Options",
and clicking the "Delete Files" or "Delete" button. Users also have the option
of automatically deleting files each time the close the browser window by
clicking the "Advanced" tab and checking "Empty Temporary Internet Files
folder when browser is closed" under the "Security" section.
    * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x users on an Apple Macintosh can delete
the history by clicking the "Hard Drive" icon, "System", "Preferences",
"Explorer", and moving the history file into the trash.
    * Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 and lower users can delete their history
by clicking the "View" menu, "Options", open the tab "Advanced",
click the "Settings" tab, and click the "Empty Folder" button.

Mozilla Firefox users
Viewing History

Press Ctrl + H to open the left-side history bar.

Click History at the top of the window.

Users using earlier versions of Mozilla Firefox can also
view their history by clicking "Go" and clicking "History."

Deleting History

Mozilla Firefox users can clear their history by clicking
the "Tools" menu, "Options", clicking the "Privacy"
button, and under "History" click the "Clear" or
"Clear Now" button.

Press CTRL + Shift + DEL to open the Clear Data Window.

Netscape users

Viewing History

Microsoft Windows users can view history by first opening
Netscape and click the "Edit" menu, "Preferences", "History",
and view the location where Netscape is storing your files.
Next, open this folder within Explorer.

Deleting History

* Netscape users can delete their history files by clicking
the "Edit" menu, "Preferences", "History", and click the
"Clear History" button.

Opera users

Viewing History

Click Help and then About. Within the About Opera
window you'll see the full path to where the cached
files are stored. Browse to that file path to view
cached files.

Deleting History

Opera users can delete their history by clicking the
"File" menu, "Preferences", "History", and click
"Empty now" button. In addition, users can check
"Empty on exit" if they wish for this task to occur each
time they exit the browser.