Guide: How to Delete Selective History in Chrome and Firefox
Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox save every web page you visit in the browser history to improve your browsing experience with recommendations and suggestions. The collected data is also used to show you targeted advertisements. Now let’s say you were researching a topic, say wireless routers. Google will now show you ads based on this search query. Delete history on specific website and date | Shutterstock The bad thing here is that even after you do your research wireless routers, it will still show you ads related to it. So in order to get rid of these targeted ads, you need to have specific history related to wireless routersBut while doing this, you may want to keep some links in the history because they are useful (you can bookmark them too). To do this, you must selectively delete the history by not harming other useful links. Let’s take a look at how to do it in both Chrome and Firefox.
Selectively delete history in Chrome
First, let me see the manual way that doesn’t require a Chrome extension. So the easiest way to manually delete the history of a specific website or topic is to search for it. Go to chrome: // history and in the top right corner you will get the search form. Type the topic or a specific website whose history you want to delete. Now to delete, all results select the first. Then hold down Shift and select the last one. It will select all results. Now you can deselect the selection you do not want to delete. But this manual method does not give you control over the date. For this you need a Chrome extension.
Delete history for a specific date or time period
History Eraser is a Chrome extension that gives you extra control over managing history. You can do a lot more things than our regular Chrome History Manager. But here I’ll just show you how to achieve our current goal. Download the extension and click the icon in the extension’s menu bar. You will get a new window. Now click on History to access our history content.
Now scroll down and look for the title you want to clear history for. Then select the date. Or you can select only the date to clear the date specific history.
You can even export the results as an HTML document for future use.
Selectively clear history in Firefox
In Firefox you get native support to clear the history of a specific website. Right-click on any link in the history library and you will be given the option – Forget this site.
One thing to note is that this option will also delete all cache and form autofills related to this website. If you don’t want this to happen, you can use a plugin that clears the website from the library. But it keeps the cache and auto-fill of forms. Download Delete site history.
Clear history by date
In Firefox, you cannot clear history by date, but by time period. You need a plug-in for this. Install Precise Clear History. After downloading, press Ctrl + Shift + Del. This will open the options for the plugin. What it does is it adds more options to the Clear Recent History window. It adds date specific options and also control over session history.
The main disadvantage of this plugin is that you cannot select a specific website. However, if your sole purpose is to clear the history on a specific date then this is the best plugin.
Conclusion
As I said before, clearing history for a specific unwanted website can improve suggestions in your web browsers. So let us know in the forum how effectively you have used these plugins and extensions.
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