Deleting cookies
Cookies are stored on your computer by websites you visit and contain information such as site preferences or login status. This article describes how to delete cookies in Firefox.
- To clear your browsing history, cookies, and temporarily cached files at once, see Clear Recent History.
- To clear your browsing history, cookies, and temporarily cached files at once, see Clearing Private Data.
- To prevent websites from storing cookies on your computer, see Blocking cookies.
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Delete cookies for a single site
To delete cookies for one site:
- At the top of the Firefox windowOn the menu bar, click on the ToolsFirefoxEdit menu, and select Options...Preferences....
- Select the Privacy panel.
- Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history.
- Click . The Cookies window will appear.
- In the Search: field, type the name of the site whose cookies you want to remove. The cookies that match your search will be displayed.
- Select the cookie(s) in the list to remove and click .
- Select the first cookie and press Shift+End to select all the cookies in the list.
- Click to closeClose the Cookies window.
Delete cookies for a single site
To delete cookies for one site:
- At the top of the Firefox windowOn the menu bar, click on the ToolsFirefoxEdit menu, and select Options...Preferences....
- Select the Privacy panel.
- Click . The Cookies window will appear.
- In the Search: field, type the name of the site whose cookies you want to remove. The cookies that match your search will be displayed.
- Select the cookie(s) in the list to remove and click .
- Select the first cookie and press Shift+End to select all the cookies in the list.
- Click to closeClose the Cookies window.
- Click to close the Options windowClick to close the Preferences windowClose the Preferences window
Delete all cookies
To delete all cookies stored on your computer:
- Click on the Tools menu and select Clear Recent History....
- Set Time range to clear to Everything.
- Click on the arrow next to Details to expand the list of history items.
- Select Cookies and make sure that other items you want to keep are not selected.
- Click to clear the cookies and close the Clear Recent History window.
- Click on the Tools menu and select Clear Private Data....
- Click to select Cookies and make sure that other items you want to keep are not selected.
- Click to clear the cookies and close the Clear Private Data window.
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