How To Clear Cache, History And Cookies On The Computer and Smartphone 1

How To Clear Cache, History And Cookies On The Computer and Smartphone

How to clear cache, history, and cookies – You already know that on every computer and smartphone there are cache, history, and cookies? Let me remind what is cache, history, and cookies in the term of the computer world.

What is cache

A cache is temporary files that saved locally on your computer/smartphone from the web server when you browse the internet. By having locally stored files, your computer doesn’t need to take all the information from the server, thus your browsing activity is faster and you save the amount of traffic transferred from the server to your devices.

What are cookies

Cookies, on the other hand, is a small program that records certain data to customize your internet browsing experience. When you visited a website like Amazon, the page will greet you as below picture without you have to input your name. The other function of a cookie is to send user behavior when browsing the Internet.

cookie on Amazon website

What is history

History is records of the visited website, you can access it by pressing CTRL+H. I always using history when I want to know the website I visited yesterday but I don’t remember what was that.

delete browsing history

Why you want to delete cache

When we feel that our browsing speed become slower as the files that stored locally getting bigger and bigger. Another problem we may find when we have too many cache files is sometimes the information is not current. This is when you want to delete the cache.

Why you want to delete cookies

Delete cookies is very recommended when you have done internet banking activity or other activity that including sensitive data. If you are using a public computer is highly recommended to delete cache, history, and cookies.

How to delete cache on Google Chrome

Click 3 vertical dot on top right section of Google Chrome, click more tools
more tools
Click Clear Browsing Data or click Ctrl+Shift+Del
delete browsing data
delete browsing history
delete cache files

delete cookies

How to delete cache automatically?

Best practice is to always logout everytime you finish working with the computer, by doing so all browsing data (cache, cookies, and history) will deleted automatically from current computer.
how to delete browsing data automatically

Similar Posts

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *