CLEARING THE SEARCH BAR HISTORY IN WEB BROWSERS

Web browsers by default, keep a record of the sites you delete. This can be handy such that when you type in a search bar, you can quickly access the site you want. Times come however when you may need to clear your browser search bar. To clear the search bar history for the following browsers entails:

Clearing the Search Bar History in Internet Explorer:

There are two options involved here: Removing individual links from the address bar or clearing the entire search history.

To remove individual links:

1. Open the Internet Explorer Window and type the URL you want to remove in the address bar
2. Select the URL you want to remove
3. Select the red X at the end of the address bar to delete the URL.

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Clearing the entire search bar in Internet Explorer:

1. Open an internet window and select Settings in the upper-right corner which looks like the gear icon
2. Select Safety
3. Select History and then select Delete

Clearing the Search Bar History in Opera

There are two methods for deleting search bar history here. You can either delete individual links or delete all at a time.

To delete individual links:

1. Open an Opera window and type the first few letters of the URL you want to delete
2. Select the URL you want to remove
3. Select the X at the end of the bar to delete it

To remove all search bar History from Opera, do the following:

1. Open an Opera window and select Settings from the menu on the left
2. Select the arrow next to Advanced to expand the list
3. Select Privacy and Security
4. Select Clear browsing data
5. Select Browsing history, then select Clear data

For those using the Opera mobile app, deleting the browsing history entails:

1. Select the Opera icon in the lower right corner
2. Select Settings
3. Select Clear Browser Data
4. Select Browsing History
5. Select Clear

Clearing the Search Bar History in Safari

You can delete browsing history one URL at a time or you can clear the entire search history.

Removing individual URLs in Safari:

1. Open Safari and select History
2. Enter the website you want to remove from your search bar history in the search field
3. Select the website you want to remove
4. Press delete to remove the URL

Deleting the entire search bar history:

1. Open Safari and select History
2. Select the Clear drop-down menu and choose all history to delete the entire Search history
3. Select Clear History

Clearing the Search Bar History in Safari for iOS

To clear individual URLs:

1. Open Safari and tap the Bookmarks icon
2. Tap the History tab, which looks like a clock to search for addresses you want to remove
3. Swipe left on an individual URL and select Delete to remove it from your search bar history

Clearing the entire search history in Safari for iOS

1. Open the Settings app, then tap Safari
2. Tap Clear History and Website Data
3. Tap Clear History and Data to comfirm