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.
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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