Most of today’s web browsers try to help save you a little bit of time and effort here and there. One of the areas they’re doing this is completing a URL address for you if you have typed it in previously into the browser address bar. If you typed in and went to “ishouldnotbehere.com” last week, when you start to type in letters such as “ish” into the address bar, the browser will detect you have typed this in before and show the full address as an option to try and save time typing the whole thing in again.

This might be all well and good, but there are times you might not want a specific address to be kept in the history and certainly don’t want it showing up when someone else starts typing a few letters into the bar so they can see where you have been! What you want to do is without completely deleting all the auto complete entries, just delete all traces of the ones you don’t wish to keep around.

Each of the most popular web browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome each have different methods in deleting individual entries from the address bar. Here we’ll show you how for each browser.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer has always been a rather curious program in the way it works, not least because of the small fix I’m going to talk about here. It may not seem like such a big deal, but a lot of users prefer to have Internet Explorer when it opens, display in a full screen, or maximized window.

This doesn’t sound too difficult to achieve on the face of it, simply click on the Internet Explorer icon in your Start Menu, Quick launch or on the Desktop. Then click the maximize button and close your browser. When it’s started up again, the window will be maximized. Or so you would think…
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