When working with pages in several automating projects I noticed that the fields like login ID, search fields, etc., are getting saved on the page. Thus, when my Selenium test runs, I need to put additional code to clear those fields if those are populated. I needed a way to clear the browsing data through my test before I went to the page.

I attempted a few solutions from here and here. However, these worked on older versions of the Chrome browser. Next, I tried out the solution from here. It worked in part but I needed to also set the time range as AllTime.

A longer version of the final completed code is here. It basically traverses through the DOM which is tricky because of the nested shadow roots. This version is easy to understand but it is long and it’s a bit flaky as well.

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