Automatically Clear Safari Browsing History on Quit

Hi

I have just played around in Terminal & set the webkit history limit to err zero - This seems to allow history to build up during the session, but after quitting, the history is blank. Perhaps that'll meet your needs?.


to do this, in Terminal I entered defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitHistoryAgeInDaysLimit 0



Naturally(!) I haven't tested thoroughly... so beware a bit eh.

to reset to normal, just enter the same command but with a number 1 to 5, as desired instead of the zero.

Umm, it's also possible that history might do a Cinderalla's carriage at midnight 🙂

Hello shiv:

I hunted around, but there does not seem to be a +'clear upon closing'+ option. I even looked in Cocktail, but there was no GUI there that would do what you wish.

Barry

If you wish to clear History upon closing to prevent others seeing where you have been, then you may want to give the Safari menu -> Private Browsing... a try.

Yep. Best method.
You don't need to "clear" what is never created.

Hi

I tested on Tiger 10.4.10 with Safari 2.0.4 - it's possible that Safari 3.0.x behaves differently (?). I found that history worked as normal, but was totally empty after quitting Safari & restarting; if yours behaved differently, chances are that this err hack won't work for safari 3

Well the easiest way is just to clear history before you quit, you can also go to preferences and under the general tab set clear history to 1 day.

To answer your question, No. The closes is to set to clear history after 1 day.