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Clear Browsing Data Automatically in the New Microsoft Edge Browser

July 27, 2020 by Brad May 2 Comments

You have the new Microsoft Edge browser (built on Chromium), and you’d like to have it automatically purge your search history every time you close your browser. You can have it remove more than just your search history. Edge can clear browsing data of various kinds automatically. No fluff in this post. Here’s how you do it…

Click the “3 dots” button, then click Settings

click the 3 dots in the upper right corner, then click the Settings (gear) icon

Note: Depending on your screen size, you may see a different versions of these screens. I’ll include those screenshots and descriptions here, too.

Click Privacy & Services then click “Choose what to clear every time you close the browser.”

screenshot of clear browsing data. While in the Settings menu, click Privacy and services, then click Choose what to clear every time you close the browser

For smaller screens, click the hamburger menu next to “Settings”

On smaller screens, click the hamburger icon next to Settings

For smaller screens, “Privacy and services” is under the hamburger menu

On smaller screens, click the hamburger icon next to Settings, then click Privacy and services

Under “Clear browsing data” select the items you want to clear

screenshot of items you can set to automatically clear when you close your browser for option "clear browsing data"

Once you’re in “Privacy and services / Clear browsing data on close“, simply click the toggle switches on the right side to enable/disable the items you would like to clear every time you close Microsoft Edge.

Here’s an example of the option, “Browsing history” set to delete every time you close Microsoft Edge. This also removes the autocompletions of things you’ve typed in the address bar.

screenshot example of an option button toggled on under clear browsing data on close

Microsoft Edge was recently updated on many computers, unbeknownst to many users (probably your story, since you’re here). Love it or hate it, this is technology, and SOMETHING will always be changing. I hope this article has been helpful to you.

Let me know if this article helped you or not. Reach out and let me know what other questions/problems you may have.

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  1. Sim Byram Shattuck Jr. says

    July 27, 2020 at 4:56 pm

    Hey, I followed your directions and will see if it works. When I go to History after clicking Close, it should then be empty, right? I clicked the first two toggles.

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  2. Brad May says

    July 28, 2020 at 12:51 am

    Yep, that should be the case. Let me know if you see anything different.

    Reply

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