only 61 days left till xmas-better cover your tracks

let's say you're browsing the innerwebs in search of a little holiday joy for your honey...( get your mind outta the gutter) take for example an online store-could be any store, but for this example, say we're shopping for wifey and we stumble upon a diamond store. on no! we don't want to seem obvious as to where we've been, but at the same time, don't want to blow our cover and raise a bunch of flags by deleting all the browsing history. well, here's a simple and practical approach to being sneaky this holiday season. keep in mind, this is only a very basic technique and does not deal with removal of cookies, saved search fields, or stored passwords.

for the example, we're using the latest version of mozilla firefox and i've chosen 2 sites which look pretty obvious as to what they are-zales dot com and diamonds dot com. annnnnd let's assume for the time being that they were both entered into the address bar at the top.



at this point, they are now logged in the browser history. when we click the dropdown list of recent sites or begin typing, we see, they are in fact, visible.

to make them make like a tree and get outta here McFly, click history, and choose "show in sidebar" you'll then see splayed before you, a neatly organized (and hopefully smut-free) history of every site you've visited.


to remove the offending entries, simply right-click and delete.you may have to be pretty thorough, depending on how much you're trying to get away with...although they should be organized by domain.



now, when we look at the drop-down of recent sites, it's clear as a whistle. close the side bar and you're set.