How To Clear Your Private Data In Firefox 2 For Windows

Clear Private Data Dialog - Part 2

• Browsing History: Browsing history keeps a record of all web sites that you have visited. You can view this record by choosing History from the Firefox menu.
  
  
• Saved Form Information: Anytime you enter information into a form on a website, Firefox stores some of that data. For example, you may have noticed when filling out your name in a form that after typing the first letter or two your entire name becomes populated in the field. This is because Firefox has stored your name from entry in a previous form. Although this can be very convenient, it can also become an obvious privacy issue.
  
  
• Saved Passwords: When entering a password on a web page for something such as your email login, Firefox will usually ask if you would like for the password to be remembered. If you choose for the password to be remembered, it will be stored by the browser and then prepopulated the next time you visit that web page.
  
  
• Download History: Firefox's Download Manager keeps a record of every file that you download through the browser.
  
  
• Cookies: A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive when you visit certain web sites. Each cookie is used to tell a web server when you return to its web page. Cookies can be helpful in remembering certain settings that you have on a web site.
  
  
• Cache: Firefox uses its cache to store images, pages, and URLs of recently visited web pages. By using the cache, the browser can load these pages must faster on subsequent visits to the site by loading the images, etc. locally from the cache rather than from the web server itself.
  
  
• Authenticated Sessions: You may have logged into a site and noticed that when you returned later you were still logged in. This is because Firefox saved your authenticated session.

• Open Your Firefox Browser
• Select "Clear Private Data" From the Tools Menu
• Clear Private Data Dialog - Part 1
• Clear Private Data Dialog - Part 2
• Clear Private Data Dialog - Part 3
• Alternate Way To Change 'Clear Private Data' Settings - Part 1
• Alternate Way To Change 'Clear Private Data' Settings - Part 2
• Alternate Way To Change 'Clear Private Data' Settings - Part 3