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Data Management

WebLibre includes both manual and automatic cleanup tools. You can wipe data right away, remove older history and tabs over time, or clear selected data when you quit and start the app.

Delete Browsing Data Automatically

Delete Browsing Data Automatically is the new name for the former Incognito Mode setting. It is a browser-wide cleanup rule, not a private-tab mode. Your existing choices carry over when you update.

When enabled, WebLibre deletes the selected data when you use Quit. With Also Delete on Start enabled, it also deletes them when WebLibre starts. This is useful when Android closes the app or you swipe it away without using Quit. Existing automatic-deletion setups keep startup deletion enabled unless you turn it off.

To set it up:

  1. Go to Settings > Privacy & Security

  2. Turn on Delete Browsing Data Automatically

  3. Choose what to clear:

    • Open tabs

    • Browsing history

    • Recent searches

    • Cookies and site data

    • Cached images and files

    • Site permissions

    • Downloads

To delete only on Quit, turn off Also Delete on Start. Swiping WebLibre away or letting Android close it does not trigger quit-only cleanup; the data remains until you next use Quit. If cleanup is interrupted, WebLibre remembers the unfinished work and retries it on a later start, even when routine startup deletion is off.

Under Settings > Privacy & Security > Confirm Before Quitting, choose whether Quit asks for confirmation. In the confirmation dialog, expand Delete browsing data to select extra categories for that quit without changing your normal selection. Don’t ask again also saves the selected categories for future automatic quit cleanup. Long-press Quit to skip the question, not the cleanup.

If you select Cookies and site data, most websites will sign you out. If you select Open tabs, your current tabs will be closed.

How This Differs From Private Tabs

In many browsers, incognito or private mode only applies to tabs opened in that mode.

In WebLibre, automatic deletion applies to selected browser-wide data, including regular browsing. Private tabs instead have their own temporary session. You can use both independently.

Per-Container Clearing

If you use containers, each cookie-isolated container can have its own Clear Data on Exit setting.

This setting is narrower than browser-wide automatic deletion. It clears that container’s cookies and site data when you quit WebLibre, while other containers can keep their data.

Typical examples:

  • Keep your Banking container signed in

  • Clear your Shopping container after each restart

  • Use a Research container that starts fresh each time

To configure it:

  1. Open or create a container with Cookie Isolation enabled

  2. Turn on Clear Data on Exit

For containers, Clear Data on Exit refers to cookies and site data for that container. It is not the same as clearing all tabs, history, cache, permissions, or downloads for the whole browser. If Cookie Isolation is off, the container does not have a separate cookie jar to clear. Exclude from History is a different container setting and works without cookie isolation.

A practical setup

One simple approach is:

  1. Put sites you want to keep signed in to their own containers

  2. Turn on Delete Browsing Data Automatically for browser-wide cleanup such as history, cache, or open tabs

  3. Turn on Clear Data on Exit only for containers that should never keep login state

That gives you persistent logins where you need them and automatic cleanup elsewhere.

Auto-Clear History

If you do not want old history to build up, you can tell WebLibre to remove history entries older than a set age.

Available options are:

  • Never

  • 1 Day

  • 3 Days

  • 1 Week

  • 2 Weeks

  • 1 Month

  • 3 Months

Newer history stays available. Older history is deleted automatically.

Find this in Settings > Privacy & Security > Auto-Clear History.

Auto-Clear Unassigned Tabs

This setting automatically closes older tabs that are not in any container.

It can be helpful if your regular tab list grows over time but you want to keep intentionally organized container tabs untouched.

Available options are:

  • Never

  • 1 Day

  • 3 Days

  • 1 Week

  • 2 Weeks

  • 1 Month

  • 3 Months

Find this in Settings > Privacy & Security > Auto-Clear Unassigned Tabs.

This only affects tabs that are not assigned to a container. Tabs inside containers are handled separately.

Delete Browsing Data

If you want to clear data immediately, go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Delete Browsing Data.

You can choose any combination of:

  • Open tabs — closes all open tabs

  • Browsing history — deletes saved browsing history, Recently Closed Tabs, tracker statistics, and the local search index so no page content stays searchable

  • Recent searches — clears your recent search entries

  • Cookies and site data — signs you out of most sites and removes stored website data. Affected tabs are closed first so old data does not reappear

  • Cached images and files — removes temporary files stored to speed up browsing

  • Site permissions — resets saved permission choices such as camera, microphone, or location access

  • Downloads — removes download entries from WebLibre

Clearing Downloads removes the download records shown in WebLibre. Downloaded files already saved on your device may still remain unless you delete those files separately.

Custom Backup Directory

You can choose where WebLibre stores profile backups instead of relying on the default internal location.

To change the backup location:

  1. Open Manage profiles

  2. Open Backups from the toolbar

  3. Tap the folder button

  4. Select a folder on your device or external storage

Backups stored outside the app survive even if you uninstall WebLibre. Old backups in the previous location are migrated automatically when you select a new directory.

Temporary Data in Backups

Profile backups automatically skip temporary browser data such as page caches, icons, and thumbnails.

This significantly reduces the backup file size and speeds up backup creation. The trade-off is that cached images and other temporary data will not be restored from that backup; the browser will rebuild them as you browse.

Tips

  • Use Delete Browsing Data when you want to clear something right now

  • Use Delete Browsing Data Automatically when you want selected data cleared on Quit and optionally at startup

  • Use containers with Cookie Isolation when you want some sites to stay signed in while other browsing stays separate or gets cleared