When you visit web pages, download components or view images, you web browser stores the information on your computer as cache, so that you can be able to locate the same content or websites again much faster. If you have too many files stored in the browser history folder, you may also run into occasional browser errors that prevent some web pages from launching. Clear today’s browsing history quickly and easily.

Google Chrome

• Launch Google Chrome and click the “Tools” menu (wrench icon) located on the top of your browser. Scroll down the pop-up menu and click “History” to launch the history management window.
• Click the “Delete history for this day” next to today’s date. Google Chrome deletes all the websites that you have visited today.
• Close the history management window when you finish.

Opera

• Launch Opera, click the “Tools” menu on the top and then click the “History” option on the pop-up menu to launch the history management window.
• Click the “View” button in the history management window and then select the “By Time and Site” option. You should see your browser’s history organised by date.
• Select the “Today” option and then click the “Delete” button. Opera deletes today’s browsing history.

Firefox

• Launch Firefox, click the “Tools” menu located on the top of the browser window and then click “Clear Private Data” to launch the “Clear Recent History” dialogue box.
• Select “Today” in the “Time to range to clear” box, and then place a check on the browser history options in the “Details” box.
• Click “Clear Now.” Firefox deletes today’s browsing history.

Internet Explorer

• Launch Internet Explorer and then click the “Favorites” button located on the top. A new panel launches in the left panel.
• Select the “History” option and then select “Today.” You should see a list of the websites that you have visited today.
• Highlight the websites that you have visited today and then press “Delete” to remove them from your computer.

Safari

• Launch Safari, and then click the “History” menu located on the top. Scroll down the pop-up menu and click “Show All History.” A new window launches displaying all of your browsing history organised by date.
• Locate the “Last Visited Today” option. This option contains a list of all the websites that you have visited today. Right-click it and then click “Delete” to remove today’s history.
• Close the History window when you finish. You should no longer see today’s browsing history.

Skype added an interesting new feature that allows anyone to use the free version of the messaging app without an account. To use it without an account, you must use Skype for Web; however, account holders can still join in using a regular Skype client.

This is an extension of a feature Skype rolled out in October 2015, which allowed Skype users to add non-Skype users  to their conversations.

When you use Skype’s account-free options, you’re considered a guest. All conversations are based on a unique link that you can share with anyone you want to talk to over Skype. Guest conversation links last for 24 hours and allow up to 300 people to have a text chat, or up to 25 people to participate in a voice or video call.

Guest conversations have most of the features you get with a free account such as screen and file sharing. Skype Translator (the service’s real-time translation tool) is out, as are paid-account features such as phone calls to landlines or mobile phones.

Get started on Skype’s website.

Since this is a web-based service, you start on Skype.com. When you land on the webpage you’ll see a button labeled Start a conversation.

Pick the username you’d like to use for the conversation.

Once your name is entered, click the Start a conversation button again. Once that’s done, you’ll eventually see a Skype loading screen as Microsoft prepares the account-free conversation.

When everything is ready, a Skype for Web conversation window appears. To get other people to join, you have to share the unique web address created for your conversation. You can either copy the link in the left-hand panel or from the big blue box in the main part of the screen. Now share that link as you would any other—via email, Facebook, Twitter, SMS, WhatsApp, etc.

If you’re sending the link to someone on a PC, when they click the conversation link they will have an option to open the Skype app on their PC. If they’d rather not use their account for the conversation, they can just click the Join conversation button to use Skype for Web as a guest. Mobile users can also use the Skype URL to join the conversation from their smartphone or tablet using Skype’s mobile apps.

Enjoy your account-free Skype chats.