How To Automatically Clear History When You Close Firefox

I admit that I’m a computer addict and I surf the internet everyday for about 6-8 hours. If you’re like me, then probably your temporary internet files are already taking up some of your disk space that’s why it is very important to delete these files often because it can take up a lot of storage space on your hard drive and can eventually cause your processor to slow down as it takes up valuable resource space. Fortunately, modern web browsers have an easy method for deleting these files, and today, I’m going to show you how you can automatically clear history when you close Firefox.

I’m going to show you first how you can delete the history/temporary files manually:

* For this tutorial, I’m going to use Firefox 3.

1. Go to Tools menu –> Clear Recent History or just press CTRL + SHIFT + DELETE.

2. A new window will appear. Choose the Time Range and the Items you want to clear and click Clear Now.

That’s it! Now I’m going to show you how you can automatically clear history when Firefox closes:

1. Go to Tools menu –> Options. Go to Privacy tab. On the option “Firefox will:” choose Use custom settings for history.

2. Check Clear history when Firefox closes and click Settings so you can choose which items should be deleted every time you close the browser and click OK. Click OK again to close the Options window.

That’s it! From now on, every time you close Firefox, your temporary internet files will be deleted.

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