Few days back, I posted a guide to so Firefox users to delete their browsing data at exit. If you use Google Chrome and want to make sure that there is no trace of the websites you visited — here’s how to delete everything when you close Chrome.
Open Google Chrome, click on Wrench menu and select Settings.
Under Settings section, click on Show Advanced Settings.
Find Privacy settings and click on the Content Settings button.
Under Cookies, check the box that says, Clear Cookies and Other Site and Plugin Data When I Close My Browser. This will delete the privacy data and your browsing history every time you exit your browser.
However, there are specific websites that you want to save in your browsing history, for example, Gmail, Facebook or your own site. You can add those websites to the exceptions list. Click on Manage Exceptions buttons under Cookies settings.
Add the URL of the website you want to keep in your browsing history, select Allow from dropdown menu and click OK.
Now, whenever you will close your browser, it will save the data and cookies for that specific website. Groovy!
Thanks I needed that!!
Um, it still doesn’t delete history though…
The history still remains.
The option is not even available for Chrome 21.0.1180.60 m (doesn’t seem to work anyway). This is unconscionable. Can’t automatically delete history on exit? So the answer is: use Firefox.
This setting does not appear to be present in 21.0.1180.79 (Official Build 151411).
Come on Man. This is not automatic! smh
No longer works. Chrome doesn’t seem to provide this as an option anymore. You can use Click&Clean chrome extension to accomplish a deletion of browser history on exit.
Doesn’t work – tossa – why dont you ***** delete it you just wasted my time!
Of course Google took that feature out. They DON’T WANT you to remove your history as they use this data for their ad targeting.