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Delete Browser History

Delete Browser History

by Josmy Joseph

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Summary

Summary

Delete Browser History activity will remove all your browsing history from Internet Explorer

Overview

Overview

Whenever you or bot browse the Internet or go online,the browser saves a copy of every page visited and cached locally on the computer to help pages load faster and reduces the amount of data you need to transfer over your Internet connection. Having a copy of your web browsing history has its advantages and disadvantages.

One of the major advantage of this feature is that it makes browsing easier and as an added convenience, especially when it comes to sites that you visit often and need to refer to often. But the disadvantages of this feature is that sometimes this feature can't keep your privacy more secure i.e,web browser that keeps track of sites and pages that a user visits. Another disadvantage is this feature may affect the performance of browser.

To help keep your browsing history private, free up disk space on your computer and avoid the situation where the site is unable to load properly because of INetCache, you can clear your local browsing history.

"Delete Browser History" activity will remove all your browsing history from Internet Explorer. 

Advantages of "Delete Browser History" activity:

1)Preventing the accidental saving of secure data or login credentials

Deleting browsing history after each bot execution can help us prevent the accidental saving of secure data or login credentials.

2)Not allow websites to track or prevent website tracking

Every website visit places a cookie on your computer. In case of automating secure sites such as banking, finance and accounting this activity helps to prevent tracking websites.

3)To speed up your browser and increase the performance of your browser

Cookies get saved as files on your hard drive. Though they are small files, when there are a lot of them, they take up space. In addition, your web browser uses more computing power in order to load web pages that are saved in your browser history as it searches all of your cookies files in order to perform its function properly.

Note: Once the history is deleted on your computer, it cannot be recovered.

Features

Features

Benefits of "Delete Browser History" activity: 1)Preventing the accidental saving of secure data or login credentials. Sometimes human and bot may access the same machine one after another it is not possible to dedicate a machine completely for bot running and vice versa. Human may access the machine after bot execution.Deleting browsing history after each bot execution may helps us to prevent accidental saving of secure data or login credentials. 2)Not allow websites to track or prevent website tracking Every website visit places a cookie on your computer.In case of automating secure sites such as banking,finance and accounting this activity helps to prevent tracking websites. 3)To speed up your browser and increase the better performance of your browser. Cookies get saved as files on your hard drive.Though they are small files, when there are a lot of them, they take up space.In addition, your web browser used up more computing power in order to load web pages that are saved in your browser history as it searches all of your cookies files in order to perform its function properly.

Additional Information

Additional Information

Dependencies

No dependencies

Code Language

Visual Basic

Runtime

Windows Legacy (.Net Framework 4.6.1)

Publisher

Josmy Joseph

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License & Privacy

MIT

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Technical

Version

1.0.0

Updated

February 18, 2020

Works with

Studio: 18.1 - 22.10

Certification

Silver Certified

Application

Google Chrome

Support

UiPath Community Support