diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractRipper.java b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractRipper.java
index 8a72482a..4bf1a7e0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractRipper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractRipper.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractRipper
                 implements RipperInterface, Runnable {
 
     protected static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(AbstractRipper.class);
-    private final String URLHistoryFile = Utils.getConfigDir() + File.separator + "url_history.txt";
+    private final String URLHistoryFile = Utils.getURLHistoryFile();
 
     public static final String USER_AGENT =
             "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0";
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ui/MainWindow.java b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ui/MainWindow.java
index 984e750d..38c73889 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ui/MainWindow.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ui/MainWindow.java
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@ public final class MainWindow implements Runnable, RipStatusHandler {
             saveHistory();
         });
         historyButtonClear.addActionListener(event -> {
+            Utils.clearURLHistory();
             HISTORY.clear();
             try {
                 historyTableModel.fireTableDataChanged();
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/utils/Utils.java b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/utils/Utils.java
index 28be6639..7a34e6e3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/utils/Utils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/utils/Utils.java
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem;
 import javax.sound.sampled.Clip;
 import javax.sound.sampled.Line;
 import javax.sound.sampled.LineEvent;
-import javax.sound.sampled.LineListener;
 
 import org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationException;
 import org.apache.commons.configuration.PropertiesConfiguration;
@@ -176,6 +175,16 @@ public class Utils {
             return ".";
         }
     }
+    // Delete the url history file
+    public static void clearURLHistory() {
+        File file = new File(getURLHistoryFile());
+        file.delete();
+    }
+
+    // Return the path of the url history file
+    public static String getURLHistoryFile() {
+        return getConfigDir() + File.separator + "url_history.txt";
+    }
 
     private static String getConfigFilePath() {
         return getConfigDir() + File.separator + configFile;