If you share a computer with someone else, you might not want that person to be able to check your Internet browsing history. That record is easy to erase, however, in all of the major browsers.

Internet Explorer does have an InPrivate browsing mode that will prevent your recently viewed pages from showing up in your history, but it has to be enabled before it works. If you ever forget to ...

Every time you view a Web page in your browser, a copy of the page is stored in the browser's cache, a dedicated folder where Web content is saved on your hard disk drive. If you re-open the page, the ...

Periodically cleaning out your browser’s data (such as your history, or your cache and cookies) can help protect your privacy from snoops who want to discover what sites you’ve visited recently, or ...