Yandex browser clear exit history. Instructions for deleting history in the Yandex browser. How to get into history and leave no traces there
Good day!
If you think that you are being watched, this does not mean that you are paranoid...
I probably won’t tell many people a secret, but when working on a PC, quite a lot of people are watching us, for example, the Windows OS itself, browsers (which also record the history of pages visited), providers, search engines, etc.
And if the information from all these trackers is hidden from most people and is difficult to obtain, then finding out the history in the browser is a matter of half a minute!
This is probably why many users are often interested in how to delete the history of visiting sites from the browser forever, so that no one finds it. In this article I will try to show how this can be done.
Automatic
In order not to go into every browser and clear the history, it is much more convenient to use a special one. utilities - cleaners. For these purposes, I recommend CCleaner, System Care, Wise Care (the first, in my opinion, is the most preferable - it is in it that I will show the entire work process).
Addition!
By the way, I have an article on my blog about the best programs for cleaning Windows from junk - I think it would be very helpful to provide a link to it now:
In addition, these specialized cleaning utilities have functions such as overwriting deleted files - i.e. The utility makes it so that other programs cannot recover deleted files. Those. As a result, we clear history completely and forever - so that it will subsequently be impossible to restore!
CCleaner
Official website of the program:
CCleaner is one of the best utilities for quickly and effectively cleaning Windows from junk. The utility is very careful in its work - it deletes only junk files that will not harm the operation of your system. In addition to its immediate task, the utility can defragment registry files (to improve performance), remove uninstallable programs, control startup, and other functions.
Let's consider clearing browser history...
After launching the utility, click the “Analyze” button - within a minute or two it will allow you to assess the degree of “contamination” of Windows with various garbage information (temporary files, broken shortcuts, tails in the registry, browser cache, etc.).
In my case, CCleaner found about 21,408 MB of garbage - which, you see, is not a little!
Please note that the menu on the left shows which browsers will be cleaned. If you do not want to clear history in a certain browser, uncheck the boxes next to it.
To start cleaning, click the button of the same name below (see screenshot below).
Cleaning up 21,408 MB of garbage
So that history cannot be restored...
If you want your history not to be restored using special. programs (for example, like this: ), you need to do one more operation - erase the free space with zeros.
The point here is...
Have you noticed that copying information to disk takes a long time, and deleting it takes 1-2 seconds? and there is no file. Why is that?
The fact is that when you delete a file, Windows simply begins to assume that it has nothing on the disk at this address, and new information can be written there at any time. BUT! The file itself, up to a certain point, does not disappear anywhere from the disk, and as long as this space on the disk is not overwritten, it can be restored.
The operation of erasing free space will just go through such areas on the disk and fill them with “zeros” so that there is nothing left to restore...
Thus, to completely delete history, after the program reports to you that the cleaning operation has been successfully completed, go to the section "Service/Erasing disks" and select the following options:
- only free space (we have already deleted the history from the occupied space);
- simple rewriting (the simplest option is both fast and quite reliable);
- local drive "C:\" (specify the drive where you have the browser installed).
The erase operation can take quite a long time - a 1 TB disk may take 1-2 hours. But, usually, the system disk with Windows is made smaller, and therefore the operation is much faster. In any case, if you are worried about the story, an extra 10-20 minutes does not make a big difference...
ADDITION!
There is one more important point. Some browsers have one very interesting feature enabled by default: history synchronization (for example, it is in Chrome). And if you are registered and authorized in the browser, then the whole history is not only accumulated on your hard drive, but also on Google servers (data is sent to the cloud from time to time).
Thus, by deleting all the history on the disk and then opening the browser, you can see that the history has not disappeared anywhere, the entire visit log will be filled in as before. Therefore, before cleaning, I recommend disabling history synchronization in the browser.
In Chrome this is done quite simply, you need:
- or open "Settings/Synchronization" and turn off synchronization;
- or open the page chrome://settings/syncSetup , and similarly move the slider to off.
Disable History Sync in Chrome (Settings/Sync)
With this option disabled, the history will not be restored after it is deleted from the disk. You can sleep peacefully...
Important!
Although we have deleted the history completely, there are still some ways that help partially find out what web resources you visited. I talked about how this can be done in one of my articles; I provide a link to it below (I recommend reading it).
How to view your browsing history, even if it is deleted -
Manual
With this method, do not forget that there will be information on the disk that can be restored using special tools. programs (because without third-party utilities it is impossible to “fill” the free space on the HDD with zeros).
Perhaps the only advantage of this method: you don’t need to download and install additional programs...
Chrome
In the Chrome browser, there are three ways to access your browsing history:
To clear your history, simply click the link of the same name in the menu on the left. See screenshot below.
To open the quick history clearing window in Chrome, there is a special keyboard shortcut - Ctrl+Shift+Del. The window that opens after this click is shown below.
If you do not want Chrome to remember your history, turn on incognito mode (key combination Ctrl+Shift+N) - or select this option in the settings. The browser will open a new window - which will be protected from tracking...
Also, do not forget that to completely remove all traces, you need to wipe the free space with the help of a special one. utilities I talked about this in the first part of the article!
Opera
- To quickly clear history - click Ctrl+Shift+Del. The combination is the same as in Chrome.
- To open the story: press the Ctrl+H key combination, or open the menu "O --> history" (note: "O" is the red circle in the upper left corner). See screenshot below.
Firefox
Microsoft Edge
Addition!
Browsing history in the browser on Android: how to view and clear it (in Chrome, Yandex browser, Opera) -
That's all, actually. Additions are welcome.
To find out how to clear history in the Yandex browser, you need to repeat all my steps.
- In the settings menu that opens, we move the mouse cursor over the “History” item. The “History Manager” sub-item from the drop-down list will open.
- We press the left list key once on it, after which it will open in a separate browser tab - “History Manager”.
- There is also a key combination to quickly call up this menu. To do this, we need to press the Ctrl+H key combination on the keyboard at the same time.
- After opening the “History Manager” item using any of the listed methods, a page with visited sites will open in your browser.
- Here you can select the necessary pages and delete them, or completely delete your entire browsing history - for all time.
- In order to delete the history of visited pages in the Yandex browser, you need to hover the cursor over the “Clear history” button by clicking once with the left mouse button.
After this, a pop-up window will open with settings that you can choose at your discretion.
- By clicking on the “Delete the following items” item from the pop-up menu, select the time for which you need to clear the history.
- The pop-up menu contains items such as deleting history for the past hour, past day, past week, past 4 weeks and for all time.
- The default option is to delete the following elements for all time.
Having selected the time for which you want to delete your history of visited resources, we proceed to selecting additional settings, namely, we need to select items such as browsing history, download history, cookies and other site data, files saved in the cache, passwords, form autofill data , and the last point is data from saved applications.
Having selected the items we need and the time for which we need to delete the history, click on the button just below to the right - “Clear history”. The process itself takes from a few seconds to several minutes, depending on the amount of history you have accumulated.
As you can see, everything is quite simple and clear, and now you yourself know how to delete history in Yandex browser. If you want to receive my lessons by email, write your email in the box at the end of the article, and I wish you good health!
With UV. Evgeny Kryzhanovsky
Like any other web browser, it constantly records the history of web pages viewed. In most cases this is very convenient. Because history allows you to quickly find web pages that have been visited previously.
But, if several users work on the same computer, then the history of web pages viewed can cause a leak of personal information. Fortunately, browser developers have foreseen this and created the necessary tools.
In this article you can learn how to clear history in Google Chrome completely and partially. The article will also discuss several popular browser extensions that greatly simplify this procedure.
Complete history clearing in Google Chrome
In order to clear history in the Google Chrome web browser, you need to open this browser and press the key combination CTRL + H.
After this, a page with the history of web pages viewed will open. Here you need to click on the “Clear history” button.
As a result, a small pop-up window should appear in front of you, with which you can clear the history in Google Chrome. To do this, in this window you need to check the box next to the “Browsing history” function, select the time period for which you want to clear the history, and click on the “Clear history” button. If you want to delete absolutely all of your web browsing history, then you need to select the “all time” option.
Please note that using this pop-up window you can delete not only your web browsing history, but also other personal data. For example, here you can remove:
- download history (list of downloaded files);
- cookies (files responsible for authorization on sites);
- passwords (passwords that you saved when logging into the site);
- autofill data (data that you entered on sites);
- data of allowed applications;
- content licenses;
How to delete individual history items in Google Chrome
If you don't want to completely clear your history in Google Chrome, you can only delete individual entries. To do this, exactly as described above, open the history of viewed web pages using the CTRL+H key combination.
After this, check the boxes opposite those entries in the browser history that you would like to delete.
After that, click on the “Delete selected items” button.
And we confirm the removal of the selected elements by clicking on the “Delete” button again.
After this, the items you selected will be deleted from your browsing history in Google Chrome.
Extensions for clearing history in Google Chrome
If you need to clear history in Google Chrome quite often, then you can, which greatly simplifies this procedure.
- – an extension that adds a special button to the toolbar to clear history. Using this button, you can clear your history, as well as delete other personal data, with just one click. The extension has settings in which you can choose which data should be deleted and which should not.
- – another extension that allows you to clear your browsing history in just one click. This extension adds a button to the toolbar, by clicking on which the user can select the time period for which they want to clear their browsing history.
As you browse the web, Firefox helpfully remembers lots of information for you – sites you"ve visited, files you"ve downloaded and more. All of this information is called your history. However, if you are using a public computer or share a computer with someone, you may not want others to see these kinds of things.
This article explains what information is stored in your Firefox history and gives you step-by-step ways to clear all or part of it.
- To temporarily stop Firefox from storing history, see Private Browsing - Use Firefox without saving history .
Table of Contents
What things are included in my history?
- Browsing & Download History: Browsing history is the list of sites you"ve visited that are shown in the History menu, the Library window"s History list and the address bar autocomplete list. Download history is the list of files you"ve downloaded that are shown in the .
- Form & Search History: Form history includes the items you"ve entered into web page forms for Form autocomplete. Search history includes items you"ve entered into the search field on the New Tab page or into Firefox"s Search bar.
- Cookies: Cookies store information about websites you visit, such as site preferences or login status. This includes information and site preferences stored by the Adobe Flash plugin. Cookies can also be used by third parties to track you across sites. For more info about tracking, see How do I turn on the Do Not Track feature? .
Note: In order to clear cookies set by Flash you must be using the latest version. See Updating Flash for instructions.
- Cache: The cache stores temporary files, such as web pages and other online media, that Firefox downloaded from the Internet to speed up loading of pages and sites you"ve already seen.
- Active Logins: If you have logged in to a website that uses HTTP authentication since you most recently opened Firefox, that site is considered "active". Clearing this logs you out of those sites.
- Offline Website Data: If you"ve allowed it, a website can store files on your computer so that you can continue to use it when you are not connected to the Internet.
- Site Preferences: Site-specific preferences, including the saved zoom level for sites, character encoding, and the permissions for sites (like pop-up blocker exceptions) described in the Page Info window .
How do I clear my history?
How do I make Firefox clear my history automatically?
If you need to clear your history every time you use Firefox, you can set it to happen automatically on exit so you don’t forget.
Note: Under certain circumstances, this function will not run:
- Firefox did not shut down normally. If Firefox crashes, you will need to start Firefox and exit/quit normally to ensure that this function runs.
- Firefox is set to use automatic private browsing. History retained from regular sessions can only be cleared from a regular window. To change between regular mode and automatic private browsing, see:
Browsers appeared with the emergence of the Internet, and their main purpose is to provide any user with information through a visual interface. Using an Internet browser, you can browse web pages, listen to music, watch movies, and chat with friends. Yandex.Browser is an advanced development by Russian programmers, designed for “travelling” through network resources. For it to work correctly, you must periodically clear the cache.
What is cache and why clear it
The browser cache is a special folder in which copies of data about the sites visited by the user and all actions performed by him at that time are saved. When viewing web pages again, there will no longer be a request for information; they will simply be retrieved from the cache and shown in the browser window. When using a cache, the network load is reduced and the loading time of the necessary pages is reduced.
Where is it stored?
Sometimes it becomes necessary to view or copy the Yandex Browser cache data, for example, when various technical support requests are sent to you or in case of searching for lost information about visiting a site, etc. The cache is located in a special folder on your computer or mobile device.
Folder addresses
| operating system | Cache address |
| Windows 7 and Windows 8 | C:\Users\Your account\AppData\Local\Yandex\YandexBrowser\User Data\Default\Cache\ |
| Windows XP | C:\Documents and Settings\Your Account\Local Settings\Application Data\Yandex\YandexBrowser\User Data\Default\Cache\ |
| Windows Vista | C:\Users\Your account\AppData\Local\Yandex\YandexBrowser\User Data\Default\Cache\ |
| Mac OS | ~\Library\Application Support\Yandex\YandexBrowser\Default\GPUCache\ |
| iOS | ~\Library\Caches\Since the data that is cached is generated by the browser, it is stored in NSCachesDirectory, for which a separate folder can be created, for example, MyAppCache. In this case, one of the methods for storing temporary data can be used: NSKeyedArchiver, NSURLCache, SQLite, Core Data. |
| Android | ~\Android\data\The folder is intended for storing user data. The information may also be archived in the Android\obb folder. The device cache is located in the wipe\cache directory, and the system application cache is in wipe\dalvik-cache. |
| Windows Phone | ~\Applications\Data\The easiest way to access the cache is through the Others folder. It stores cached browser history files. |
How to clear cache
For operating systems installed on computers and mobile devices, Yandex.Browser is not basic. In this regard, clearing the browser cache is always done through internal settings or using special programs.
On the computer
Clear the cache by clicking on the appropriate button Hotkeys
You can clear the Yandex Browser cache using the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + Del on Windows or ⌘ + Shift + Del on Mac OS. In this case, you immediately go to the “Clear History” tab, where, after selecting the necessary parameters, you start this process.
How to clear your web browsing history on your computer (video)
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Using Windows Cleaner
If you do not want to search and delete “garbage” on the system disk, and also study the Yandex Browser settings, then use a special program to clear the cache. Its advantage is that it independently scans the system and deletes unnecessary and temporary files.
Windows Cleaner is one of the most popular programs that allows you to clear your cache. This is what many users prefer. Its popularity is due to its extremely simple and understandable interface, fully translated into Russian.
Windows Cleaner is a free program with a wide range of features. Provides complete cleaning of the system and optimization of its operation.
On a mobile device
Let's look at the most popular mobile operating systems today:
- Android;
- Windows Phone.
iOS
This operating system has a built-in cache cleaner only for Safari and Opera Mini browsers. The method for clearing the Yandex Browser cache is the same as on a computer. You can also use a special program called PhoneExpander. But to do this, you need to connect to a computer running Mac OS using a special Lightning cable. The program can delete temporary files and clear the cache.
Android
Clearing the cache on Android - With the browser open, click on the icon showing the additional menu.
- After that, select “Settings” and then “Clear data”.
- Turn on "Cache". To do this, check the box next to the option name and click the “Clear data” button. After these steps, the Yandex Browser cache will be cleared.
Quickly clear the cache on Android (video)
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Windows Phone
To clear the Yandex Browser cache on the system, you need to perform only three steps.
