As you browse the most web page data is locally on your computer to help pages load faster and reduces the amount of data you need to transfer over your Internet connection.
To help keep your browsing history private, and to free up disk space on your computer, you can clear your local browsing history.
Note: Once the history is deleted on your computer, you will not be able to recover it.
You use a browser every day to check your email, look at Facebook, do some banking, maybe buy something, and of course, use your VR account. Your browser tends to hold onto information, and over time it could cause problems with logging in or bringing up websites. It’s always a good idea to clear out the cache, or browser history, and clear cookies on a regular basis. The drawback to this is that your saved usernames and passwords will be deleted and you’ll need to re-enter them. But on the plus side, your privacy is more secure and your browser will work better.
What are cookies?
They’re a small piece of data from a website and stored in your browser while you’re on a website. Every time you pull up that same website, the browser sends the cookie back to the website with all the info from the last visit.
Cookies can be helpful, storing your username or preferences for a particular website. Sometimes the cookies are used to track your visit to websites so that businesses can show you ads online.
Browsers keep cookies until they expire, which could be when you log out of an account, or for years, as is the case for tracking cookies.
Browser cache is usually overwritten when you reach a certain amount, but will store information about your browsing history until you clear it.
To get the most out of your VR account, we recommend clearing the cache and cookies on your browser often. If you’re having a tough time logging in, try clearing your cookies. If your account isn’t loading correctly, you aren’t seeing what you expect, or there’s an error, try clearing the cache to make sure you’re seeing the latest info. And it’s usually better to just do both at the same time to eliminate any issues. We recommend using latest version of Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer or Firefox for your VR account.
Most browsers work in a similar way, but here are the major browsers and how to clear cache and delete cookies for them. And it’s best practice to run the latest version of your favorite browser, keeping it updated helps pages load better and gives you more security.
Delete all your data (browser history)
2. Select Tools.
3. Select Clear browsing data.
4. In the dialog that appears, select the checkboxes for the types of information that you want to remove.
5. Use the menu at the top to select the amount of data that you want to delete. Select beginning of time to delete everything.
6. Click Clear browsing data.
2. Select Settings.
3. Click Show advanced settings.
4. In the “Privacy” section, click the Content settings button.
5. In the “Cookies” section, you can change the following cookies settings:
◦ To delete all cookies, click Remove all at the bottom of the dialog.
◦ To delete a specific cookie, hover over the site that issued the cookie with your mouse, then click the X that appears on the right corner.
Empty the cache
2. Choose Safari > Empty Cache, and then click Empty.
3. Reload the current page
4. While viewing a webpage using Safari, choose View > Reload Page, or click the Reload icon (curved arrow) in the Safari address field.
Open Safari if it is not already open.
2. Click Details.
3. Select one or more websites that stores cookies, and then click Remove or Remove All.
4. When you finish removing websites, click Done.
Clear cache: Open Internet Explorer 11.
2. Note: If you have the Menu bar enabled, you can instead click Tools and then Delete browsing history….
3. In the Delete Browsing History window that appears, uncheck all options except the one labeled Temporary Internet files and website files.
4. Click the Delete button.
5. The Delete Browsing History window will disappear and you may notice your mouse icon go busy for a few moments.
6. As soon as your cursor returns to normal, or you notice the “fished deleting” message at the bottom of the screen, consider your temporary Internet files deleted.
2. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Settings.
(If you’re using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer up, and then click Settings.)
3. Tap or click Options, and then, under History, tap or click Select.
4. Select the Cookies check box, and then tap or click Delete.
2. Tap or click the Tools button , point to Safety, and then tap or click Delete browsing history.
3. Select the Cookies and website data check box, and then tap or click Delete.
1. Open Mozilla Firefox 29.
2. Click the Menu button (the one with three horizontal lines) and then choose Options.
3. If Options is not listed in the menu, click Customize and drag Options from the list of Additional Tools and Features over to the Menu.
Note: If you’re using the menu bar, choose Tools and then Options instead.
2. In the History area, click the clear your recent history link.
3. In the Clear Recent History window that appears, set the Time range to clear: to Everything.
4. In the list at the bottom of the window, uncheck everything except for Cache.
5. Note: If you wish to clear other kinds of stored data, feel free to check the appropriate boxes. They will be cleared with the cache in the next step.
6. Tip: Don’t see anything to check? Click the button next to Details.
7. Click on the Clear Now button.
8. When the Clear Recent History window disappears, all of the files saved (cached) from your Internet browsing activities in Firefox will have been removed.
To delete cookies for one site:
1. Click the menu button and choose Preferences
2. Select the Privacy panel.
3. Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history.
4. Click Show Cookies…. The Cookies window will appear.
5. In the Search: field, type the name of the site whose cookies you want to remove. The cookies that match your search will be displayed.
6. Select the cookie(s) in the list to remove and click Remove Cookie.
◦ Select the first cookie and press Shift+End to select all the cookies in the list.
7. Close the Cookies window.
Delete all cookies
To delete all cookies stored on your computer:
1. On the menu bar, click on the History menu, and select Clear Recent History….
2. Set Time range to clear to Everything.
3. Click on the arrow next to Details to expand the list of history items.
4. Select Cookies and make sure that other items you want to keep are not selected.
5. Click Clear Now to clear the cookies and close the Clear Recent History window.
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