MAC QUESTION: How do I clear all of my searches?

Question

I don't know if it's just Yahoo, but everything I've searched ever on Yahoo is still coming up. If I go to www.yahoo.com and click the down arrow, it comes up with everything I have ever searched and it's driving my crazy! I've cleared the history, but it doesn't go away. NOTE: This is not the Yahoo toolbar (I know how to get rid of those.) but it's Yahoo itself. I'm sure it's not just on Yahoo, it's probably every search field I type in online. I'm using a 2006 Macbook. Thank you so much!

Answer 1

Why does nobody know about this?

It's not the history, it's your AutoFill (or AutoComplete for some browsers) forms that automatically fills in search fields and stuff. To clear it using Safari:
In the Menu Bar, go to Safari > Preferences
Click the AutoFill tab
Next to Other Forms, click the Edit button
Find yahoo.com or whatever you want and click Remove OR
click remove all
click Done

If you prefer this to not happen again, use Private Browsing in the future, available from the Safari menu bar (Safari v.2 and above).

If you're using Firefox, the instructions may be different but the concept is the same.

Answer 2

I know and I have some easy to follow steps:
However, if you wish to delete search history saved by the browser and auto-filled when you type on the yahoo website, here is the solution:

To clear your history from Internet Explorer:
1. Go to the "Tools" menu.
2. Select "Internet Options."
3. Click the "General" tab.
4. Click the "Clear History" button. To completely disable the history function, set "Days to keep pages in history" to zero.
To turn off this feature:
> Open an Internet Explorer page
> Go to tools
> Click on Internet options
> Click the content tab
> Then click the auto complete button, make sure you uncheck every thing in there.

To clear your history from Mozilla Firefox:
1. Go to the "Tools" menu.
2. Select "Options" > "Privacy" > "History."
3. Click on "Clear." To completely disable the history function, set "Remember visited pages for the last X days" to zero ("0").
4. Click "OK" to exit.
This will resolve it all :)

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These steps are if you have Yahoo! Toolbar:
If you want to remove all the entries in your search history right now, but you still want Yahoo! Toolbar to remember your searches in the future, do the following:

1. Click the Pencil menu.
2. Select "Clear Recent Searches".

If you want to save your recent searches while you're searching on the Web, but automatically clear the saved searches when you close your browser window, do the following:

1. Click the Pencil menu.
2. Select "Toolbar Options".
3. Select "Auto-clear recent searches when exiting IE" so there's a checkmark in the box next to it.
4. Click "OK".
If you want to disable the feature entirely so none of your searches are saved, do the following:

1. Click the Pencil menu.
2. Select "Toolbar Options".
3. Click "Remember Recent Searches" so there's not a checkmark in the box next to it.
4. Click "OK"
:)

Answer 3

You can use 'Free Internet Window Washer'. It allows you to erase Window's temp folders, run history, search history, open/save history, recent documents, your browser's cache, cookies, history, visited URLs, typed URLs, autocomplete memory, index.dat files. It's free. You can find it at any of the following:
http://www.eusing.com/Window_Washer/Window_Washer.htm
http://www.freeware365.com/utilities/disk_cleanup.htm
http://www.download.com/Free-Internet-Window-Washer/3000-2144_4-10554490.html?tag=lst-0-1

Answer 4

Hi there...if you are using Safari...Go to the Safari menu and select "Reset" and then the buttons ask No or Yes...choose Yes. This will wipe the caching