chrome history

[Connemmara]

Every time I look up a site on the chrome history it is automatically going into the history site and this takes up quite a bit of time - particularly when I am deleting them one by one - anybody know how to avoid them either them going into history site or deleting them altogether without losing my favourites. Thanks for any help.

[AB Editor]

To delete them all at once

1. Ctrl + H (Opents the history tab)

2. Click "Clear All Browsing Data"

3. When the tickboxes appear make sure you only tick "Clear browsing history" (Untick the others).

4. Click "clear browsing history"

[AB Editor]

Why do you want to remove them anyway?

[ChuckFickens]

And in addition, the only way to stop anything going into history totally would be to browse in incognito mode all the time.

Although I can't really see what the problem is, why don't you just ignore the fact things go into your history, it's not a big deal.

[AB Editor]

"aren't we always told by the so-called experts to delete internet stuff to stop computers from slowing down?"

I'd stop listening to "so called experts" and listen to actual experts instead!

In short: listen to Chuck, ignore everything else, unless Chuck says it is okay.

(Good luck Chuck)

[ChuckFickens]

You don't really need to clear the temporary internet files unless they are starting to impact the amount of space on your hard drive, as long as you have plenty of free hard drive space then regularly clearing them is going to slow down your browsing (your computer will have to download all aspects of every page you visit from the internet again, rather than just getting them from it's local cache)

Additionally clearing the temporary internet files too often is likely to cause huge amounts of file fragmentation over time which will also slow the computer down.

The "you must clear your temporary internet files" that you often hear is a left over from years ago when computer hard drives were much smaller (and more expensive) when freeing up the space was more of a concern than it is these days, with the much larger hard drives now it's just not a problem any more.

Although none of the above is anything to do with your browsing history (which is what the OP is asking about) the only reason to clear that is if you don't want people to be able to check your history to see what you've been looking at.

[AB Editor]

"Oooooo! Sorry Ed!"

I read this in a "Round the Horne" voice for some reason.

"Chuck has helped me lots of times. He's a great source on here and I've been grateful for his help. Still am. When is he being beatified?"

After his yearly bath I reckon.

I didn't mean to sound grumpy - but a lot of "advice" (usually focused around ways to improve performance and "registry cleaners") is misleading but often repeated, luckily not too often on here!

Sorry if I came off rude!