How to remove an entire site from your browser’s history

This guide explains how to remove all history entries of a specific websites from the browser’s Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox. It should work in most other browsers as well.

All web browsers record the websites that you visit while using them. The browsing history serves two main purposes: to highlight previously visited sites when you type in the address bar, and as a record for the user to look up previously visited sites.

Sometimes, you may want to remove sites from the browsing history. Maybe because you do not need a record of the site anymore or want it to disappear completely from the browsing history.

All desktop browsers include functionality to do that. Problem is, it is not clear exactly how it is done. Opening the browsing history displays all visited sites, but there is no option to remove a specific site from the browsing history.

Clearing the entire history works, but it results in a loss of all records.

Delete a site from Google Chrome’s history (and other Chromium-based browsers)

The general method of removing a site’s records from the Chrome browsing history works also in all other Chromium-based browsers. It works in Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, and all other desktop versions of these browsers.

Here are the required steps:

1. Select Menu and then History > History in the browser. You may also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-H to open the history, or load chrome://history/ directly.
2. Use the search history field at the top to find all entries of the website that you want to delete. The best option is to type its domain name, e.g., chipp.in.
3. Scroll all the way down to the end. Chrome lists only some of the entries by default. You may also repeat the operation multiple times if there are too many records.
4. Now check the box of the last entry on the page.
5. Scroll all the way to the top.
6. Hold down the Shift-key and click the box of the first history entry. All entries are now checked.
7. Select the Delete option.
8. Confirm the deletion.

Here is how this looks in other Chromium-based browsers:

The process should work in all Chromium-based browsers. Most redirect chrome://history to “their” internal page protocol, e.g., vivaldi://history or edge://history/all.

How to clear a site from Firefox’s browsing history

Mozilla’s Firefox web browser supports a similar feature. It works differently, as it is not based on Chromium.

Here are the steps in Firefox:

1. Select Menu > History > Manage History.
2. Use the search field to find all records of the website.
3. Switch from the “Today” filter to “History” to see all records of that site.
4. Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-A to select all entries.
5. Right-click on the selection and select “Delete pages”. Note that there is no confirmation.

What about other records?

Deleting a site from the browsing history removes records of visits only from this database. Other databases may still store information about the site. There is the downloads history, which may have records if you downloaded files from the site.

Sites may also place content on the computer, e.g., as cookies or site data. These do not get cleared when you delete the browsing history.

How to delete other site records in Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers

It is relatively easy to delete site data and cookies in Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers.

1. Select Menu > Settings in the web browser.
2. Open Privacy and Security.
3. Select Site settings on the page that opens.
4. Click on “View permissions and data stored across sites”.
5. Use the search at the top to find a site.
6. Click on the trashcan icon next to it to remove it.
7. Confirm the operation with a click on the delete button.

Note: this removes offline data and logs you out of the site.

Do the following to remove the downloads history in the browser:

1. Load chrome://downloads/ in the browser’s address bar.
2. Use the search at the top to find all records of a site.
3. Activate the x-icon next to each to remove the records.

Deleting site records in Mozilla Firefox

You may also remove cookies and site data records in Mozilla Firefox.

1. Load about:preferences#privacy in the Firefox address bar. This opens the Privacy preferences.
2. Scroll down to the Cookies and Site Data section.
3. Activate the “Manage Data…” button there,
4. Use the search field at the top to find a specific website.
5. Click “remove all shown”. Firefox deletes the entry immediately without confirmation.

Here are the steps to clear all downloads from a specific site:

1. Select Menu > Downloads or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-J to open the Downloads interface.
2. Use the search at the top to find downloads from a specific site.
3. Use Ctlr-A to select all downloads.
4. Press the Delete key to remove all entries from Firefox’s history.