Firefox History

Firefox remembers the websites that you recently visit and other information about these sites. The information is saved as browsing history. Firefox lets you delete the information by following a few simple steps. Deleting them might be important for you for reasons of privacy and security.

What is history?

Before clearing your Firefox history, it is important to be familiar with some technical terms as defined by Mozilla.

Browsing & Download History: Browsing history is the list of sites you’ve visited that show in the History menu, the Library window’s History list, and the Smart Location Bar’s address list. Download history is the list of files you’ve downloaded that show in the Downloads window.

Form & Search Bar History: Form history includes the items you’ve entered into web page forms for Form autocomplete. Search Bar history includes items you’ve entered into Firefox’s Search bar.

Cookies: Cookies store information about websites you visit, such as site preferences or login status.

Cache: The cache stores temporary files, such as web pages and other online media, that you have downloaded from the Internet.

Active Logins: If you have logged in to a website that uses encryption since you most recently opened Firefox, that site is considered “active.”

Site Preferences: Site-specific preferences, including the saved zoom level for sites, character encoding, and the permissions for sites described in the Page Info window.

Clearing Firefox History:

1.At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Tools menu, and select Clear Recent History.

2.Select how much you want to clear:

Beside Time range to clear, select how much of your history Firefox will clear. You can clear the history collected in the last one, two, or four hours; all previous hours of that day (Today); or all your history (Everything).

You can choose to clear any or all of the items described above.

For Firefox 3.5 click the button next to Details to display what items to clear.

3. Click Clear Now. The Clear Recent History window will close, and the data you have selected will be cleared.