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Clear Browser History

Staying Safe Online

If you have concerns about an abusive partner tracking your browsing history, you may want to delete or clear your browsing history to increase your safety. This is an optional step with various pros and cons. Managing your browser history eliminates the opportunity for your online searches and correspondence to be tracked and therefore increases your privacy. However, if deleting history from a browser, it’s safer to delete only those items you don’t want the abuser to know about. Deleting everything may alert the abuser that someone has tampered with the browser history and result in him increasing his abuse.

Here are some instructions for clearing your browser history to ensure traces of this site, and others you wish to hide, are not left in your browser:

Internet Explorer 8 and above

  1. Internet Explorer 8 and above

    1. From the Safety menu in the upper right, click Delete Browsing History.
    2. Deselect Preserve Favorites website data, and select Temporary Internet files, Cookies, and History.
    3. Click Delete.
Internet Explorer 7

Internet Explorer 7

  1. From the Tools menu in the upper right, select Internet Options.
  2. Under “Browsing history”, click Delete.
  3. To delete your cache, click Delete files.
  4. To delete your cookies, click Delete cookies.
  5. To delete your history, click Delete history.
  6. Click Close, and then click OK to exit.
Firefox 3.5 and above for Windows

Firefox 3.5 and above for Windows

  1. From the Tools menu, select Clear Recent History.
  2. From the Time range to clear: drop-down menu, select the desired range; to clear your entire cache, select Everything.
  3. Click the down arrow next to “Details” to choose what history elements to clear (e.g., check Cookies to clear cookies). Click Clear Now.
Firefox 3 for Windows

Firefox 3 for Windows

  1. From the Tools menu, select Clear Recent History… , and then select the items you want to delete (e.g., Browsing & Download History, Cache, Cookies).
  2. Click Clear Recent History.
Chrome

Chrome

  1. In the browser bar, enter: chrome://settings/clearBrowserData
  2. Select the items you want to clear (e.g., Clear browsing history, Clear download history, Empty the cache, Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data).
    You can choose the period of time for which you want to clear cached information from the Obliterate the following items from: drop-down menu. To clear your entire cache, select the beginning of time.
  3. Click Clear browsing data.

Here is a link for additional support: https://www.wikihow.com/Delete-Browsing-History 

Safari

Safari

  1. From the Safari menu, select Reset Safari.
  2. From the menu, select the items you want to reset, and then click Reset. As of Safari 5.1, Remove all website data covers both cookies and cache.
Firefox 3.5 and above for Mac OS X

Firefox 3.5 and above for Mac OS X

  1. From the Tools menu, select Clear Recent History.
  2. From the Time range to clear: drop-down menu, select the desired range; to clear your entire cache, select Everything.
  3. Click the down arrow next to “Details” to choose which elements to clear. Click Clear Now.
Mobile Safari for iPhone OS (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad)

Mobile Safari for iPhone OS (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad)

To clear cache and cookies:

  1. From the home screen, tap Settings, and then tap Safari.
  2. At the bottom of Safari’s settings screen, tap the buttons for Clear Cookies and Clear Cache. To confirm, tap Clear Cookies or Clear Cache again.

To clear history:

  1. From the home screen, tap Safari.
  2. At the bottom of the screen, tap the Bookmarks icon.
  3. In the lower left, tap Clear.
  4. Tap Clear History.
Android

Android

To clear cache, cookies, or history:

  1. Start your browser.
  2. Tap Menu, and then tap More.
  3. Select Settings.
  4. Under “Privacy settings”, select Clear cache, Clear history, or Clear all cookie dataas appropriate, and then tap OK to accept (or Cancel to cancel) the deletion.

Here are some links for tech safety planning. Please keep in mind all of these links are external to Cornerstone and will redirect you to a new webpage that will show in your history:

Tech Safety Links

Tech Safety Links

Social Media

Social media & tech safety

Free Email

You may want to set up a separate email if

  • You think the abusive person may have access to your current email account and you wants a safe(r) account to use when communicating with supporters (be sure to use this account only from devices that the abuser cannot access); or
  • You want a separate email account for communicating with the abusive ex-partner so you don’t have to see his messages when you’re looking at ones from friends/family/work.

You don’t have to provide a phone number or secondary email account or the true date of birth to set up an account (although the email service may ask for these things, providing them is optional).

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