{"id":14464,"date":"2018-02-09T09:54:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T14:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=14464"},"modified":"2024-07-02T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:10:12","slug":"how-to-reset-chrome-and-clear-browsing-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-reset-chrome-and-clear-browsing-history\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reset Chrome and Clear Browsing History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\">How to Reset Chrome and Clear Browsing History<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #999999;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">How to Reset Chrome<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Updated on 7\/2\/24<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Chrome open Settings, type <strong>chrome:\/\/settings\/\u00a0<\/strong> in the address bar, or click the 3 vertical dots icon at the top right corner of Chrome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In the left menu, click &#8220;Reset settings&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/chrome24.png\" alt=\"Reset Chrome -Cloudeight InfoAve\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the &#8220;Reset setting&#8221; dialog, click on &#8220;Restore settings to their original defaults&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/chrome24a.png\" alt=\"Reset Chrome -Cloudeight InfoAve\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Click on the arrow (as shown above), the Reset dialog appears (see below).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/chrome24c.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Click the &#8220;Reset settings&#8221; button and wait while Chrome resets. Then close Chrome and re-open it. Chrome will be reset to its defaults and all your extensions will be disabled. You can re-enable any extensions you need (and you&#8217;re sure they&#8217;re safe) by opening Extensions:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Type\u00a0<strong>chrome:\/\/extensions\/<\/strong> in the address bar.<\/p>\n<p>Click on <strong>&#8220;My extensions&#8221;<\/strong> on the left.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/chrome24d.png\" alt=\"Reset Chrome &amp; Chrome Extensions - Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You&#8217;ll see your extensions listed and all non-default extensions will be disabled. Find the extensions you want to enable and turn the switch to the &#8220;On&#8221; position.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Remove any extensions you do not recognize or any you do not use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When you&#8217;re done, close the Extensions settings page.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"auto-style4\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\">The Quick Way to Clear Your Chrome Browsing History\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style4\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you use the Google Chrome browser, \u00a0here\u2019s the fastest way to clear your browsing data short of creating a bookmark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style4\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Open Chrome, and press CTRL+SHIFT+DELETE on your keyboard. Chrome\u2019s \u201cClear browsing data\u201d dialog will open.<\/span><br class=\"auto-style4\" \/><br class=\"auto-style4\" \/><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto-style4\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/chrome-clear.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"567\" height=\"484\" \/><\/span><br class=\"auto-style4\" \/><br class=\"auto-style4\" \/><span class=\"auto-style4\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Using the Down arrow, you can select how far back you want to go to delete browsing data from Chrome. Choose the option &#8220;All time&#8221;. This will clear all of your browsing history and cache.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style4\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You can also check or uncheck what you want to clear under \u201cClear the following items\u2026\u201d We suggest you choose only these four (see below) especially if you have Chrome save your site passwords:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/chrome-clear1a.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" \/><\/span><br class=\"auto-style4\" \/><br class=\"auto-style4\" \/><span class=\"auto-style4\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When you&#8217;ve selected the &#8220;All time&#8221; option, and the four items we suggest, click the blue &#8220;CLEAR DATA&#8221; button.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style4\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When the process completes, close Chrome and reopen it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style4\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Remember: Clearing cookies will log you out of sites that you\u2019re logged into. The next time you visit those sites, you\u2019ll have to enter your login credentials again (even if you save your passwords as recommended above).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Reset Chrome and Clear Browsing History How to Reset Chrome Updated on 7\/2\/24 In Chrome open Settings, type chrome:\/\/settings\/\u00a0 in the address bar, or click the 3 vertical dots icon at the top right corner of Chrome. In the left menu, click &#8220;Reset settings&#8221;. In the &#8220;Reset setting&#8221; dialog, click on &#8220;Restore settings to their original\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-reset-chrome-and-clear-browsing-history\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,1433,1678,1680,1656,1674],"tags":[2163,2162,2161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14464"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28670,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14464\/revisions\/28670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}