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Why you should consider deleting internet cookies from your browser and capture hidden cookies on your device.

Why and How to Delete Cookies from my Browser

Cookies are simple text files that store information about you and your activity when visiting web sites. This in itself is not as bad as many may suggest, yet there is an underlying concern about what data is being captured and how it is being used. Below will show you how to delete cookies from the main browsers. Follow this links to learn more about What a Cookie is and why its called a cookie.

Should you Surf Anonymously?

There is a genuine concern around privacy and the justifiable question of what do some websites use your information for and who do they pass on your details to? These Privacy concerns typically arise from cookies used by embedded advertising or other content recording on web sites; sometimes called third-party cookies. Since the ads are typically served up from some other website, they can create and drop in a cookie of their own. Advertisers can then keep track of how often you visit which sites they have their advertising on. This is one reason you know how to delete cookies from your PC. I will be writing all about how to surf anonymously in the coming weeks. I plan to have my first page on this topic here in May 2013.

Take Control Now ? How to Delete your cookies and clear out you cookie history

How to remove cookies is quite straightforward. Simply select the appropriate Browser type from the table below and follow the simple instructions.

Firefox – How to Delete Cookies

Internet Explorer – How to Delete Cookies

Chrome – How to Delete Cookies

Safari – How to Delete Cookies – In Progress due May 2013

Opera – How to Delete Cookies – In Progress due May 2013

Do you want to Disable future Cookies from your browser?

Don?t forget to clear out the cookies your already have on your browser before proceeding with this step. The following page will explain how to disable cookies from your browser and therefore prevent or at least warn you when a web site tries to create a cookie on your browser. Follow this link to learn how to Enable/Disable Cookies.

Delete Chrome Cookies from older versions

To delete chrome cookies simply follow the following three steps.

1.Click the spanner icon on the browser toolbar and then select Options

(Preferences on Mac and Linux; Settings on a Chromebook).

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2.Click the Under the Bonnet tab and then click Content settings in the “Privacy” section.

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3.Click the All Cookies and Site data… option in the Content Settings dialogue that appears:

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Click Remove All button to delete all cookies and site data.

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Delete Single Chrome 13 Cookie

To delete a specific cookie, select the site that issued the cookie, then the cookie and click Remove.

Select “Clear browsing history” to delete traces of which websites you’ve visited.

Select “Clear download history” to delete records of which files and programs you’ve downloaded.

Select “Empty the cache” to delete cached website pages.

You can also delete saved passwords (which log you into websites) and saved form data (such as your name and address). Then click on the “Clear browsing data” button. Click on the Close button when you’ve finished.

 

 

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Delete cookies for a single site

The following steps explain how to delete Firefox cookies. Please not there are some variations depending on your operating system and if you wish to delete a single cookie or all cookies from Firefox.

Step one
At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Firefox button (Tools menu in Windows XP) and then click Options.

Select the Privacy Panel and set the Firefox will: option to Use custom settings for history

 

Firefox Screenshot of step 1


Step two
Now click on the button labelled Show Cookies… and a the Cookies window will appear.

Firefox Screenshot of step 2


Step three
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. You can now select the cookie(s) in the list to be removed and click Remove Cookie button.

Firefox Screenshot of step 3

Select the first cookie and press Shift+End to select all the cookies in the list.


Delete All cookies stored in Firefox

Step one
At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Firefox button, go over to the History menu (click on the Tools menu in Windows XP) and select Clear Recent History….On the menu bar, click on the Tools menu, and select Clear Recent History….At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Tools menu, and select Clear Recent History….At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Tools menu, and select Clear Recent History….On the menu bar, click on the Tools menu, and select Clear Recent History

Select the Privacy Panel and set the Firefox will: option to Use custom settings for history

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Step two
Set Time range to clear to Everything and then click on the arrow next to Details to expand the list of history items.


Step three
Select Cookies and make sure that other items you want to keep are not selected. Now click Clear Now to clear the cookies and close the Clear Recent History window.

This page will take you step by step through how to delete internet explorer cookies. When deleting cookies from IE you need to consider not only which version of the Internet explorer browser software you are running, but also which operating system you are running it on. The specific steps change a little depending on these options.

How to delete cookie files in Internet Explorer 8

Cookies can live in the memory of your Browser while it is active. Some cookies can then recreate themselves when you close down your browser. If you were to remove all cookies from IE while it was running, there is a chance that some cookies would return when you closed the IE browser. This is why it is important to clear your internet explorer cookie files while all instances of the IE browser are closed.

Ensure you have closed all instances of internet explorer down.

Depending on the operating system you are running, do one of the following:

 

1. Running Windows Vista or Windows 7 – click the Start button and type inetcpl.cpl in the Start Search box. Now press ENTER.

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OR

2. Running Windows XP – click Startand then click Run. Now type inetcpl.cpl in the Open box, and then press ENTER.

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On the General tab, click Delete under Browsing History in the Internet Properties dialog box.

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In the Delete Browsing History dialog box, click to clear all of the check boxes except for the Cookies check box, and then click Delete.

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