What is AutoComplete?
AutoComplete is a cool feature that stores a list of everything you type inweb pages (Eg: name, e-mail address, credit card information, keywords you enter in search engines, etc).
Why you should clear AutoComplete ?
While the AutoComplete feature may be helpful for some things, it can also seriously compromise your security and privacy, as anyone who has access to your computer can see what web sites you visited and what information you entered on web pages. Also various malicious software can use AutoComplete data to steal your personal information such as your name, e-mail address, credit card information and/or retrieve web sites passwords stored as autocomplete data. So, here I provided manual steps to delete AutoComplete details in browsers,
How to clear AutoComplete in Internet Explorer
To clear AutoComplete history in Internet Explorer 8
• Select Tools–>Delete browsing history.
• Select ‘History’ and click the Delete button.
To clear AutoComplete history in Internet Explorer 7
• Select Tools –> Internet Options.
• Open the General tab.
• Under Browsing history click the Delete button.
• Select ‘Delete history’ and click the Delete all button.
How to clear AutoComplete in Firefox
To clear AutoComplete history in Firefox 3
• Select Tools–>Options.
• Select ‘Privacy’.
• Under the Private area click ‘Clear Now’.
• In the ‘Clear Private Data’ window put the check mark for ‘Browsing history’ and click ‘Clear Private Data Now’.
• Click OK.
To clear AutoComplete history in Firefox 2.x
• Goto Tools –> Options.
• Select ‘Privacy’.
• Under the Private area click ‘Clear Now’.
• In the ‘Clear Private Data’ window put the check mark for ‘Saved form and Search History’ and click ‘Clear Private Data Now’.
• Click OK.
To clear AutoComplete history in Firefox 1.5
• Goto Tools –> Options.
• Select ‘Privacy’.
• Under the Private area click ‘Clear Now’.
• In the ‘Clear Private Data’ window put the check mark for ‘Saved form and Search History’ and click ‘Clear Private Data Now’.
• Click OK.
How to clear AutoComplete in Safari
• Select Edit–>Preferences.
• Select General.
• From the Remove history items drop-down menu select how often you want Safari to delete visited websites history.
• Click Ok.
There are many freeware tools to clear these things… And Ccleaner is a popular freeware….
