Windows 10: How Do You Delete Browsing History on Exit in Microsoft Edge

Hi there.

That's interesting for I thought this was a global feature now. Does and has Chrome stored its own history in its own folder?

 

Agree. If I may add, One can keep recent history, let's say the past two weeks and delete the rest. CCleaner and others have the feature and can be configured to keep cookies of favorite sites.

 

There's a Chrome extension called "Click&Clean" that will delete cookies, browser history, passwords, and more.

(I'd recommend running CCleaner at least daily to get rid of Chrome's cache, history, and cookies if you forget and exit without using "Click&Clean".)

 

I thought the same but I have that box checked and my chrome's history remains untouched.

Edge get's it's history wiped but chrome doesn't, I'm not sure why it happens but hey ho.

 

And I would but Edge is really flaky right now and becomes very unstable after 2 hours of usage with video's.

It's the same experience on both my desktop and my Surface 3 tablet, So I'm guessing it's just a little troubled by things after a while.

This is the only reason I have the box checked right now.

 

Lots of problems with Edge. I went to "Settings," "Network and Internet" and "Internet Options" and the box was already checked, but the recent browser data remains. Not only did Edge, or Windows 10, not automatically delete the browser data upon exiting as the Internet Options settings would indicate, but intermittently, the manual "clearing" of data hangs and doesn't discontinue. The browser freezes until I force a reboot and restart.

 

I personally prefer the additional security of having my history deleted when I close my browser rather than a web page that might take 10ms less to load.

I have the global setting in internet options mentioned above ticked but it makes no difference it only clears data if I use IE, I still have to manually clear edge.

Maybe this will change when I get around to doing a clean install.

I guess for the time being I will be going back to IE, thank god they left it in there as part of the OS.

Cheers

 

Really? Internet Explorer is in Windows 10? Where is it, and how does one access it? I think Edge is a catastrophe! I never thought I'd ever say that I like Internet Explorer better than another browser!

 

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...dows-10-a.html

Click on Start and type 'in...
it should be the top result.

or...

Start►All apps►Windows Accessories►Internet Explorer.

 

Perfect. Thank you! I'm over Edge, or should I say, it's over the, Edge for this new browser!

 

"Over the Edge"! That's perfect! *Wink

 

The way I see it Edge is orientated and developed more for the business-type user or someone like a teacher. Bring up a page and take notes or perform a presentation from one's own website in Web Note mode.

There is also the reading mode for less distractions. Speculating, but perhaps MS will sell books via the Store to be able to read via Edge. This will compete with others. They do sell music in the Store.

Another thing is that I think they will continue to develop Edge like their other apps.

 

Occasionally I'll use Edge as a YouTube 'pop-out' style player (it renders quite well), other than that I'm stickin with Firefox.

 

As a FYI when you have IE open right click on the IE icon on the taskbar and click "pin this program to the taskbar". That makes it much easier to open regularly.

 

That pic matches your black and gold theme perfectly. At least you're using Edge for something. *Wink

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