Clearing history, cookies and cache

Hi,
After noticing that YouTube was freezing more and more when I use it, I decided to try clearing history, cookies and cache through 'settings' 'Safari' then 'clear'.
The problem is that I don't think anything is happening when I do this. I still seem to have all my history in YouTube and Google, and I am not sure how to find out if Temporary or Cache files have deleted. I noticed that one of the postings suggested that I first need to close multiple Safari pages but this doesn't seem to have done anything either.
Can anyone recommend how to:
a- force a clearing of these files; and
b- check if temporary or cache files have deleted?
Thanks!

Try to set the network.http.spdy prefs to false on the about:config page.
*network.http.spdy.enabled
*network.http.spdy.enabled.v2
*network.http.spdy.enabled.v3
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
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