The Clear Browsing Data dialog should now be displayed. Each item that Google allows you to "obliterate" is accompanied by a checkbox. If you would like a specific item to be deleted, simply place a check mark next to its name.
It is imperative that you are aware of what each one of these choices means prior to doing anything here, or you may wind up erasing something important. The following list gives a clear explanation of each item shown.
- Browsing History: Browsing history keeps a record of all websites that you have visited. You can view this record by choosing History from Chrome's tools (the "wrench") menu.
- Download History: Chrome keeps a record of every file that you download through the browser.
- Cache: Chrome 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.
- 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.
- Saved Passwords: When entering a password on a web page for something such as your email login, Chrome 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.
