Chrome is introducing a brand new safety trick that could save you from embarrassment

GOOGLE is making it possible to quickly clear all your recent browsing data with a new button that’s sure to be handy.

Maybe you’ve got a present you wish to keep a surprise.

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Or you could have searched for something embarrassing.

Usually, you’d go to Incognito mode, Chrome’s useful extra web browser which doesn’t store as much data.

But if you forget, or simply realise you’ve been on something you’d rather keep private, you have to go through history to get rid of it.

It’s a bit long, deleting only the recent data and nothing else.

So what if you had a button that only deleted everything from the last 15 minutes?

That’s apparently what Google is working on now.

According to Chrome Story, the new Quick Delete option comes in the form of a flag in the three dot menu.

It’s not clear when the feature will land on everyone’s Chrome browser just yet.

But when it does, the two taps will definitely make life a lot easier.

Google has previously toyed with the idea on Android.

So it now looks like it could be coming more widely very soon.

We’ll have to keep an eye out in future updates to see whether it comes true.

For now, keep using Incognito for those private moments.

Or delete the history the long way.

How to delete history on Chrome

To delete web history on Chrome, start by opening the three-dot menu in the top right.

Find History, then History again.

Go to Clear Browsing Data and select how far back you want to go and the types of data you’d like to purge.

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