Introduction
If you're experiencing issues with a website or web-based application, clearing your browsing history may help. The following guidance should enable you to do this on all commonly used browsers.
Be aware that performing these actions may result in saved passwords and logins being cleared, meaning you need to ensure you have all required passwords to hand for logging back into various sites and services.
Google Chrome
- Open the Google Chrome browser
- Click on the three-dot icon at the top right of the screen
- Hover over more tools
- Click clear browsing data…
- Click advanced
- Tick all the boxes (may need to scroll down slightly)
- Click clear data
- Allow the browser to clear the history and await a notification
- Close the browser completely and re-open it
Microsoft Edge (New)
- Open the new Edge
- Click on the three-dot icon at the top right of the screen
- Click on Settings
- Click on Privacy, search, and services
- Scroll down to Clear browsing data
- Click Choose what to clear
- Ensure you have ticked the boxes for everything, selected All time and then click Clear now
- Close the browser and re-open it
Internet Explorer
Open the IE browser
Click on the cog symbol at the top right of the screen
Hover over safety
Click delete browsing history
Tick all the boxes
Click delete
Close the browser and re-open it