How to Clear Cache, Browser History and Delete Cookies on Google Chrome
This tutorial explains how to clear cache, delete cookies, and browser history on Google Chrome. People generally mix between these 3 concepts, while they are completely different. I thought of sharing the concept along with sharing the method to delete them in Google chrome.
What are cookies – These are small text files, generally used by e-commerce companies to track user preferences so that they can show ads for product for which users have shown interest. Also, it is a tool through which websites recognize their customers.
If you fill up some information regarding your sign up in e-commerce site and suddenly that link breaks, when you come back to it, you will notice that information already filled is there, this happens largely because of cookies.
The most popular reason people delete cookies is that they don’t want websites to track their preferences.
What is cache – These are temporary files on your hard disk, that get created, so that website loading gets faster and next time when you visit a website, it loads from your computer system, unless some changes have happened during this period.
The popular reason why people delete or clear cache is because – they are facing problems in loading the latest version of the website or website with updated information. They may do so if they are facing a problem in loading images.
What is browser history – Every web page you visit is tracked by Google chrome and a history of various details of web browsing is maintained on the server through your system. If you don’t want Google to track your browsing history then you can delete the same.
Generally, it is observed that if someone does not want his browsing history to be viewed by others, especially when using a shared computer then people go to history and delete the web pages visited by them or they accidentally end up deleting the complete browsing history. This happens maybe because they do not know that the browsing history of individual web pages can also be deleted.
This tutorial explains the process to clear cache, delete cookies, and browser history in Google chrome.