Browser Safety

Please note, this information is for guidance only, and may not fully hide your tracks. To be confident of covering your tracks the safest way would be to use a computer at the library, a friends house, or work.

Every time you visit a web site your computer keeps a history of your visit in the browsers cache (Temporary Internet folder). Below are instructions how to minimise the chances of someone finding what you have been looking at. Please note, if your partner uses sites where they have to sign in with passwords etc, these will also be removed, this they will know that cookies have been cleared.

Clearing Tracks in the 5 main Internet Browsers. If you do not know which browser you have installed, click on Help on the toolbar at the top of the browser screen. A drop-down menu will appear, the last entry will say About Internet Explorer, About Mozilla Firefox, or something similar.

Internet Explorer:

- Go to the task bar near the top of your screen and click on Tools.

- Select Internet Options.

- Click on Delete Files, check the Delete all offline content box and then click on OK.

- Finally, click on Clear History and then Yes.

Firefox:

- Go to the task bar near the top of your screen and click on Tools

- Select Clear Private Data

- Click on Clear Private Data Now

Chrome:

- Click on the Tool menu

- Select Clear Browser Data