• INTRODUCTION
• A History of Web Browsing
• About Chromium
• Chromium Versus Chrome
• About This Manual
• INSTALLING CHROMIUM
• Installing Chromium on Windows
• Installing Chromium on Mac OS X
• Installing Chromium on Ubuntu
• Installing Chromium in Other Linux Distributions
• UPDATING CHROMIUM
• Updating Chromium
• REMOVING CHROMIUM
• Removing Chromium from Windows
• Removing Chromium from Mac OS X
• Removing Chromium from Ubuntu
• Removing Chromium from Other Linux Distributions
• USING THE CHROMIUM INTERFACE
• Using the Chromium Interface
• Navigating the Web
• Retracing Your Steps
• Stopping and Reloading
• BOOKMARKING SITES
• Bookmarking a Page
• Where to Find Bookmarks
• Managing Your Bookmarks
• Synchronizing Your Bookmarks
• CONFIGURING YOUR BROWSER
• Accessing Chromium's Options/Preferences
• Making Chromium Your Default Browser
• Setting Startup and Start Page Options
• Choosing and Using a Search Engine
• Handling Personal Information
• USING TABBED BROWSING
• Opening a New Tab
• Opening a Link in a New Tab
• Moving Tabs
• Closing Tabs
• Killing Tabs
• DOWNLOADING FILES
• Downloading Files
• Downloading Files Without Displaying Them
• COPY, SAVE, AND PRINT
• Copying Text
• Copying a Link or an Image Link
• Saving a Page
• Saving an Image From a Page
• Printing a Page
• WORKING WITH PAGES
• Viewing the Source of a Page
• Viewing Information About a Page
• Inspecting the Elements on a Page
• EXTENSIONS
• Finding and Installing Extensions
• Managing Extensions
• Disabling and Removing Extensions
• Some Recommended Extensions
• OTHER FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS
• Creating Application Shortcuts
• Using Chromium's Developer Tools
• Covering Your Tracks
• Using the Incognito Window
• Chromium's Online Help
• Other Sources of Help
• APPENDICES
• Troubleshooting
• Glossary
• Links
• License

Covering Your Tracks

Essentially, covering your tracks means deleting your browsing history after using Chromium. Doing this erases the data that the browser has recorded on your web usage. This also means your browsing preferences -- like your most-visited web addresses, form Autofills, saved passwords, and other types of web page settings -- will be deleted.

To cover your tracks in Chromium, do the following:

1. Click on the Wrench icon, select Tools, then click on Clear Browsing Data.

   

2. In the pop-up window, choose which type of browsing data you'd like to delete by clicking on its associated option box:
   • Browsing history (the URLs of websites you've visited).
   • Download history (the list of files you've downloaded).
   • Cache (copies of frequently-visited web pages and associated images saved on your computer).
   • Cookies (records of visited websites, viewed web pages, items you've clicked on, and personalized web page settings).
   • Passwords.
   • Autofill form data.
3. After you've chosen which types of browsing data to delete, use the combo box at the top to choose the timeframe in which the data is to be deleted, from the past hour all the way up to everything.
4. Click on Clear Browsing Data to complete the process.