How to clean an address bar in Opera

How to clean an address bar in Opera

The drop-down list of an address bar of Opera contains two hundred references to pages of Internet resources which you visited lately. The browser uses them as the reference book for "the contextual hint" - when you begin to enter URL, he looks for the similar addresses in this list and suggests you to make a choice. However, for reasons of respect for privacy, it is worth cleaning a drop-down list of an address bar sometimes.

It is required to you

  • Opera browser

Instruction

1. Open the Opera menu. You should reach settings of removal of the history of visits stored by the browser. To make it, pass into the section "Setup" and select in it the line "Delete Personal Data". As a result of this action the window with the text, warning that if you just click "Delete", then all tabs of the browser will be closed and all active loadings of files are interrupted will open.

2. Click a tag near the inscription "Detailed Setup" placed under the text of the warning. So you will deploy an additional part of this dialog box with the complete list of data types which the browser can delete. You should make sure that in this list a mark opposite to the Clean the History of the Visited Pages point is given. The mechanism of forming of a drop-down list of an address bar such is that at disappearance from it any link, other URL from the history of visits fills up the list. Therefore for destruction of this list you should erase all history stored by the browser.

3. Click "Delete" for start of the procedure of cleaning, previously having made sure that in the list of noted data there is nothing that you would like to save (for example, passwords).

4. Open the menu of the browser if you want to use an alternative way of cleaning of history of visits. Pass into the section "Setup" and select a top line ("General settings") to open a window of access to change of installations of the browser. It can be opened also clicking of the CTRL keyboard shortcut + F12. On the Expanded tab select the line "History" in the list of sections. Under the inscription "Remember the Visited Addresses for History and Autocompletion" the Clean button which you also should click for cleaning of a drop-down list in an address bar is placed. Here you can limit or in general prohibit the browser to store URL of the visited pages, having exposed the necessary number in a drop-down list at the inscription "Remember the Addresses".

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


Print