Do you know that every time you browse some information online, any data that you get will be stored? Your computer is already setup to keep tracking your activities during your surfing sessions. In one side, this is good news because you could go to some websites that you forgot its name by looking it from the history. But, on the other side, it is bad news. Could you imagine what will happen when you’re just buying some things online, typing your credit card information and the information could be accessed without you knowing it?

You could remove the traces that you do during your surfing time right from your browser. Under normal condition, your browser will store any information about your activities like browsing history, username and password, cookies, file cache, even information from the form that you filled up. This is the most common things that you usually failed to pay attention because these types of information will reveal what you just done before.

Some of these tracking functions are designed to make your browsing time much faster and comfortable, but it didn’t come without any costs. But, before you learn how to erase these online activities traces, let’s take a look by what each of this information will reveal.

1. Cache – Makes your browsing faster because it stores all information about the website that you just visited and make a copy of that website. So, you don’t have to wait for so long just to access the pages that you’ve been opened before.
2. History – You could stay this is the URL storage. Every URL that you input into your browser will be stored in history to make you browse the website faster without typing the full URL.
3. Saved information form – Remember any form that you fill up lately? Well, this part definitely stores all of the information that you input previously.

To erase these traces form your computer, you do these steps:

1. Open your Mozilla Firefox browser
2. Select Tools -> Options from the toolbar
3. Choose Privacy on the left menu
4. Clear these information; History, Saved form information, Download manager history, Cache.
5. Done.

You probably want to clear the cookies too, but before you does that consider whether you’re still need the information such as username and password for several accounts that you have online. If you do, skip it. It’s because cookies often store the information like username and password so your browser will remember it the next time you visit those particular sites.

When you decide to go online, you can’t ignore the possibility that some information about yourself could be accessible by other person. So, do the steps above to protect your identity online before someone stole it.