You have control over your browsing data. This data includes things like your browsing and download history and saved form data. Use the "Clear browsing data" dialog to delete all your data or just a portion of your data, collected during a specific period of time.
Delete all your data
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In the top-right corner of Chrome, click the Chrome 'Hamburger' menu
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Select More tools > Clear browsing data.
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In the dialog that appears, select the checkboxes for the types of information that you want to remove.
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Use the menu at the top to select the amount of data that you want to delete. Select 'from the beginning of time' to delete everything.
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Click Clear browsing data.
Delete specific items from your browsing data
Instead of deleting entire categories of your browsing data, you can pick specific items to delete. Click these links to see more instructions.
- Specific pages from your browsing history
- Specific downloads
- Specific passwords
- Specific cookies and site data
- Specific Autofill entries
Details about the data that gets deleted
The following information is associated with each type of browsing data and applies to Google Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS.
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Browsing history: Clearing your browsing history specifically deletes the following:
- Web addresses you've visited from the History page
- Cached text of those pages
- Snapshots of those pages for images that appear on the New Tab page
- Any IP addresses pre-fetched from those pages
- Cookies: Files stored on your computer by websites you've visited. These files contain user information, such as preferences for websites or profile information.
- Site data: HTML5 enabled storage types including application caches, Web Storage data, Web SQL Database data, and Indexed Database data.
- Plug-in data: Any client-side data stored by plug-ins that use the NPAPI ClearSiteData API.
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