How often do you clear your browser cache?

[Icepick]

I share my laptop and home PC with my wife so I clear mine every time I shut it down. I used to do it to clear out the pr0n history. Now I do it mostly out of habit and also to keep my browsing history to myself. Do others do this or am I just a paranoid freak?

 

[mb]

Mine automatically clears when I close the browser.

BTW, hello lurker!

 

[Brainonska511]

Rarely.

Edit:
I would say "Never" in your poll, but I don't like the reason given. I'm the only one that uses my computer, so no one would see what I browse anyway.

 

[coldmeat]

Every time I close the browser.

 

[Muse]

Never. Why would you? Am using FF, occasionally fire up IE if FF is loading slowly and I want to hit a site fast (I generally have a number of windows with multiple tabs open).

 

[shortylickens]

When someone told me about 12chan.
I thought it was just a joke, so I visited it.

Its not a joke.

 

[Kalmah]

I don't share my computer with anybody so I don't even worry about it.

If I had to worry about a wife or kids finding some of my dirty browser history I then would probably use a mobile browser installed secretly on the computer.

 

[Icepick]

Mine automatically clears when I close the browser.

BTW, hello lurker!

WTF? I just noticed my post count. I joined in October 2004 and my post count was well over 2500 before they upgraded the forums.

 

[synn_]

I use CCleaner whenever i go to bed or schedule shutdown.

 

[Brainonska511]

WTF? I just noticed my post count. I joined in October 2004 and my post count was well over 2500 before they upgraded the forums.

You probably have an "imported" username, like "imported_Icepick" http://forums.anandtech.com/search.php?searchid=11354

Ask in the mod forum (link available from the main page) or in personal forum issues and they'll fix it right up for you.

 

[MrPickins]

I really don't care if my wife sees my browsing history...

I only clear it when I'm hotlinking a picture and I want to make sure it appears right.

 

[Ayah]

Everytime I close my browser, it's auto-cleared.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Never. I really don't care if anyone sees midget clown porn in my browsing history.

 

[Gothgar]

I think I might right now

 

[Bateluer]

Weekly at home, every time I close the browser at work.

 

[MotF Bane]

Never.

 

[hclarkjr]

Whenever the mood strikes me is what i voted. i run crapcleaner once in awhile and it does it for me

 

[TheVrolok]

Every time I close the browser.

This.

 

[Colt45]

rarely at home, and at work i have it delete on shutdown.

 

[sandorski]

Whatever the Default setting in FF is.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

I share my laptop and home PC with my wife so I clear mine every time I shut it down. I used to do it to clear out the pr0n history. Now I do it mostly out of habit and also to keep my browsing history to myself. Do others do this or am I just a paranoid freak?

Once every century.

 

[GeekDrew]

Are you all talking about your browser history, rather than cache? Or actually the cache?

Regardless, never.

 

[lxskllr]

Never

 

[SunSamurai]

 

[Balt]

Only before I run a virus scan, spybot, or defrag.