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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition
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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

by Wallace Wang
August 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
512 pages
11h 9m
English
No Starch Press
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Clearing Your Internet Tracks

Every time you browse the Internet, the Safari browser stores three types of information. First, Safari tracks all websites you've visited so you can return to any previously viewed sites, as shown in Figure 37-3.

Safari's History menu lists all the websites you've visited recently.

Figure 37-3. Safari's History menu lists all the websites you've visited recently.

Second, Safari stores every visited web page in a storage area called a cache. The cache speeds up your web browsing by retrieving web pages from its local storage, which is faster than downloading web pages off the Internet.

Finally, Safari stores any text you type into the Google search text box. For example, if you search Google ...

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