How to delete Cache, Cookies, History in Opera browser

Opera is one of the most underrated Browsers in the market right now. It has got some amazing features that most other browsers don’t. My favorite one is the built-in VPN. However, just like any other browser, Opera is not deprived of issues related to corrupted cache, cookies, and the best way to fix it is by clearing all of them. In this article, we are going to see how to clear Cache, Cookies, Browsing History in Opera.

How to delete Cache, Cookies, History in Opera browser

To clear Cache, Cookies, Browsing History in Opera follow the prescribed steps.

1. Click on the three horizontal lines placed at the top-right corner of the screen, Easy Setups.
2. Select Go to full browser settings.
3. Click Advanced > Privacy & security.
4. Go to Clear browsing data.
5. Change the Time range as per your choice, but if you want to remove everything, select All time.
6. Select what you want to delete and unselect what you want to leave, then click Clear data.

This way, your browser will feel a bit burden-less. This won’t delete the saved password, autofill, site settings, and hosted app data.

If you want to do that, you need to follow the prescribed steps.

1. Navigate to Easy Setup and click Go to full browser settings.
2. Click Advanced > Privacy & security.
3. Go to Clear browsing data.
4. Click on the Advanced tab.
5. Select a Time range.
6. Select what you want to delete and unselect what you want to leave, then click Clear data.

This will do the job for you.

Read: How to backup Opera Bookmarks, Data, Passwords, History, Extensions

How do I clear my cache without deleting history?

If you don’t want to clear the cache without deleting history, you can do that in Opera. What you need to do is when you are on the Clear browsing data page, just unselect Browsing history. Then, click on the Clear data button, it will do the job for you.

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Delete Cookies of a Specific Website

To delete cookies of a Specific website in Opera, follow the prescribed steps.

1. Navigate to Easy Setup > Go to full browser settings. 
2. Now, click on Advanced > Privacy & security.
3. From Security & Privacy, click on Cookies and other site data.
4. Go to See all cookies and site data.
5. Search out the site you want to delete the cookies of, from the search bar.
6. Finally, click on the Bin icon associated with that site.

Hopefully, this will do the job for you.

If you want a site to not save your cache, just go back to the Cookies and other site data page, scroll down and click Add associated with Sites that can never use cookies. Type the complete URL and click Add. That site’s cookies will never be saved.

Read: How to clear Cookies, Site Data, Cache for specific website in Chrome, Edge, Firefox

What is the difference between cache and cookies?

You may have heard these terms being used interchangeably, whereas, in reality, they mean different things. The cache was developed to store site settings, that’s why you may have noticed that websites that you open frequently take lesser time now as opposed to the first time when you opened them. Cookies, on the other hand, are used to store user choices.

Since caches are there to decrease the load time and save the content of the site, they are only stored on your system. Whereas cookies are stored on both system and the server. Because of all this, cookies will take less space than caches.

That’s it!

Also read: How to Clear Cache, Cookies, Browsing History in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.