Or – get this! – you can use a private tab/window for the really bad stuff, so it won’t get saved in your browser history. Then you can still have a browser history full of benign things, rather than an empty one.
Also very useful: Firefox has a feature of [Menu --> History --> Clear Recent History…] – that allows you to delete any trace of sites you’ve visited within a given timeframe, with choices of 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, or all day. If it’s something older than that, you can also browse through your history and manually delete anything objectionable.
Basically, only delete your browser history if the reality is worse than what people will imagine.
If reality is worse than what people could imagine, you need to unplug.
Or – get this! – you can use a private tab/window for the really bad stuff, so it won’t get saved in your browser history. Then you can still have a browser history full of benign things, rather than an empty one.
Also very useful: Firefox has a feature of [Menu --> History --> Clear Recent History…] – that allows you to delete any trace of sites you’ve visited within a given timeframe, with choices of 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, or all day. If it’s something older than that, you can also browse through your history and manually delete anything objectionable.
My browsing history would probably be more boring than what people would imagine. But it’s my browser history, eyes off!
Yeah, my browser history is significantly more tame than my bookshelf these days