

But it turns out that the firm didn’t give up completely. I’ve long wondered why Mozilla dropped Prism and discontinued the ability to run web apps as if they were native apps. But as web apps have grown more sophisticated in more recent years, Chrome and other browsers have picked up similar capabilities, and Google has an entire platform, called Chrome OS, dedicated to running these apps outside of the normal browser container. What’s odd about this feature is that Mozilla originally innovated the ability to run webpages and apps as if they were native applications using a technology called Prism that has long since been stripped out of that browser. Select what you want to clear and the time frame for which you want to delete the browsing data.A reader tipped me off to an experimental Firefox feature that lets it work as seamlessly with PWAs as does Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and other Chromium-based web browsers. In the Privacy section, click the “Clear browsing data” button. To clear other browsing data manually in Opera, go to Opera Menu > Settings and click “Privacy & security”. When you close Opera, it will now automatically clear your cookies when you close the browser. Under Cookies, select “Keep local data only until I quit my browser”. To clear cookies in Opera, go to the Opera Menu > Settings.

However, you can have Opera clear cookies automatically, as well as prevent Opera from saving your browsing history. Opera doesn’t include a feature that can automatically delete all your private data when it closes. To manually clear the selected types of browsing data, click “Clear”. Then, click the “Always clear this when I close the browser” slider button so it turns blue. Click the “More” button in the upper-right corner of the browser window.Ĭlick “Choose what to clear” under Clear browsing data.Ĭheck the boxes for the items you want to clear when you exit Edge.
