Cookies are small computer files that are stored on your computer by websites which visit and these files contain important information related to that specific website such as login status or site preferences. This article describes a method as to how to delete cookies in Firefox. Cookies are also used to track your personal preferences and the information that you are interested in for advertising purposes.
Though cookies aren’t good or bad either. But it is recommended that you delete cookies once in a while to be safe and secure. Using cookies, one can easily know about the habits of a user like browsing activity, the websites one visits, preferences and vital information like username, email addresses or rarely even passwords.
[Method] How to Delete Cookies in Firefox
Firefox is a really good browser that is fast and secure. The regular method of deleting cookies for Internet Explorer would be to go into your Temporary Internet Files and delete all the files with .cookie extension.
But fortunately Firefox includes an easy way to delete cookies stored on your computer which does this task automatically so that you have to go through all those hassles in order to delete cookies in Firefox.
Simple follow the steps below and you shall be able to delete cookies in firefox.
Steps to Delete Cookies in Firefox
- Open Firefox.
- At the top left side of the Firefox window, click on the orange Firefox button and go over to the History menu (click on the Tools menu if you are not able to find orange button on top left and see a menu instead) and click on Clear Recent History.
Alternatively, you can also press Press Ctrl + Shift + Delete to pop up the Clear Recent History Window - Click on the small button next to Details. (You should then see a window like the one below)
- From the “Time Range to Clear”, select everything
- Check the “Cookies” check box and uncheck everything else
- Click on Clear Now
- All the cookies on your computer should be deleted now.
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