Guide | How To How to automatically clear private data when you close your browser

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Source: http://www.howtogeek.com/137681/how...en-you-close-your-browser/?PageSpeed=noscript

Web browsers normally save your private data – history, cookies, searches, downloads, and more – and only delete it when you ask. If you are constantly clearing it, you can have any browser automatically clear private data when you close it.

Note that, if you set your browser to automatically clear your cookies when you close it, you will have to log into the websites you use each time you open your browser. Clearing cache files will cause websites to load more slowly after you restart your browser.
 

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In addition to our Windows 7 SP 1 & 8.1 systems, we've recently introduced our retired XP system to both CCleaner & PriVazer, and now feel as Dr. Victor Frankenstein must have felt when he exclaimed:
:eek:"It's alive!!!":D
 

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I was fan of that settings for such effortless operation before but sometimes resource consumption cannot completed immediately which you need to monitor the browser process if its terminated.

But actually the better way is done a habit of private browsing activated which none save any information and everything erase upon simply exit. ;)
 

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I was fan of that settings for such effortless operation before but sometimes resource consumption cannot completed immediately which you need to monitor the browser process if its terminated.

But actually the better way is done a habit of private browsing activated which none save any information and everything erase upon simply exit. ;)
Hi @jamescv7. I second your suggestion, and practice browsing using a 'new private window' whenever using Mozilla sourced browsers!:):)
 

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Why not use incognito in browser?
Hello @Anupam. Opera's equivalent to Incognito is called "New Private Browser" although they call it 'potato' while others call it 'po-tah-toe', it is still the same thing.;) I still browse in "Incognito" on the Chrome that is my default browser on linux lubuntu!:D
 
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