They help users when surfing the web, and also simplify the entrance to Internet resources where constant authorization is required. Cookies facilitate automatic login to a personal account, as they store information about logins and passwords. But at the same time, the performance of a personal computer can suffer from an excessive number of cookies, with the possible instability of the browser itself. Also, users of the global Internet should not forget about the likelihood of interception of data contained in cookies by third parties and the use of this information for their own selfish purposes. Advertising agencies are also actively using this ability to track human activity on the web to promote their products and technologies. Sometimes some promotion agencies ignore the legislation and violate the rights of the inhabitants of the world wide web.
How to clear cookies in Mozile
For the stable and efficient operation of the Mozilla Firefox browser throughout the entire period of operation, it is worth regularly carrying out preventive procedures. Such measures include the timely updating of the search engine and, and.
You don't need to be an advanced programmer to clear Firefox cookies. To do this, you need to know where the corresponding menu is located in the browser settings.
In the new tab that opens, select the "Privacy" item from the left settings panel. In the "Firefox History" section, select the option associated with personal user preferences for storing the history of visits to sites.
In this settings window, the user can selectively delete unnecessary cookies, or you can delete all content at once.
To simplify the process of periodic maintenance of his reliable Internet browser, the user can create individual settings to automatically delete certain information from the history of visits to Internet resources.
To do this, check the box next to the parameter "Delete history when closing Firefox", click on the active, after this manipulation, the "Options" button.
In the open window of the settings menu, you can select those parameters that will be automatically deleted when you close the Mozilla Firefox browser.
With proper customization of your search engine and regular preventive measures, thus, taking preventive measures, the browser will serve faithfully for a long time, with a minimum number of errors, freezes and brakes. Plus, the likelihood of attackers "falling for the bait" will be significantly reduced and will come to zero altogether.
Safe web surfing, dear users of Internet resources!
We covered in the previous article, it's time to move on to practice. Consider how to clear cache and delete cookies in various browsers.
Internet Explorer (from version 7)
We open Internet Explorer ... In the upper left corner we find menu bar (File, Edit, View, etc.). Here we choose Service - Internet options .
In the window that appears on the tab General (opens by default) find Browsing history and press the button "Delete ..." .
Now we have a window "Delete browsing history" .
For clearing cache put a tick opposite "Temporary Internet Files" ... For deleting cookies - check the box "Cookies" ... You can also check the boxes "Magazine" (to delete browsing history) and "Download log" (to clear the list of files that you downloaded using Internet Explorer. Don't worry, the files themselves are not deleted.). If you want the deletion not to affect the sites listed in your favorites, check the box next to "Save Favorite Sites Data" . "Web Form Data" - everything you have ever entered when filling out fields on sites. This can be your mailbox, which you indicated when registering on some Internet resources, what you entered in the search fields on different sites, etc.
When the choice is made, click the button below "Delete" ... If there are many files, it may take a while.
Possible problems
AT Internet Explorer no such menu (File, Edit, View ...)! There is a menu, just not visible.
- To make it appear only for the duration of the operation being performed, press the key on the keyboard Alt ... The menu appeared.
- If you want the menu to be displayed constantly, then in the upper part of the Internet Explorer window, right-click to bring up the context menu and click "Menu bar" ... Now this menu will be displayed until you turn it off yourself in the same way.
- If you still cannot display this menu, then go to Control Panel (click in the lower left corner of the screen Start , choose there Control Panel ). Are looking for Internet options ... If you have Windows XP, I think it won't be difficult for you to find the right item. If Vista or 7 and no matter how hard you try, you can't find Internet options , then in the upper right corner of the "Control Panel" we find View: ... If there is "Category", then clicking on this word, change it to a variant "Large icons" or "Small icons"... Now you can definitely find Internet options .
Opera
For clearing cache, deleting cookies, history and other temporary files at opera browser : click on the icon and the inscription Opera in the upper left corner, then move the cursor to the drop-down menu Settings and choose Delete personal data ... .
In the window that opens, click on the triangle next to Detailed setting and tick off the necessary items. Clear cache, delete cookie, clear the history (to remove the list of visited pages) and history of uploaded files, close all tabs (By default Opera, when opened, loads all the pages that were opened during the previous use. Naturally, if there are many of them, Opera will load much longer.), etc .; delete saved passwords Better not. Push the button "Delete" .
Today we will talk about simple things. Of course, if users are looking for the question of how to clear cookies, then it seems that it does not seem so simple to them, so we will analyze this point. I will describe only four browsers in which we will clear cookies - Opera, and Yandex Browser. The fact is that only these browsers are installed on my computer. If suddenly you happen to have another browser, then it's okay, because the principle of clearing a Cookie is almost the same as in the others.
To begin with, I will provide information for those who do not know what a cookie is.
- Cookies - this is important information in terms of security that is collected by the browser when you visit any site. The information can be the login or password of the account, site settings. Browser history, you can say the same cookies, if you decide to "cover your tracks", then they need to be cleaned sometimes.
This process is very simple, now I will show it to you on the example of 4 browsers. Go.
We need to go to the settings, for which we click on three stripes in the upper right corner and select the item from the drop-down menu "Settings".
Now click on the button "History"which is on the left. Choose an item "Clear the history".
A window will open in which we see what can be cleaned. So, we can clear not only cookies (3 check marks), but also the history of views and downloads, passwords, images and files stored in the cache, autofill data. You can also select an interval, for example, delete data for the entire time or for the past hour. It's up to you.
In this browser, we also click on the top three stripes, which are on the right, and select there "Settings".
Go to the tab "History" and on the right we press the button "Clear the history"... A window appears, almost like in Google Chrome.
As you can see, everything is given here as in Chrome, so I will not explain here what you can delete. The third checkbox is responsible for cookies. I do not recommend deleting auto-complete forms and passwords, because when you go to a site, for example, a social network, then when you enter data (password and login), they are saved in the browser. Subsequently, you can enter the site without entering this data.
Here, too, everything is very simple. Click on the "Menu" button at the top left and select "Settings".
Go to parameter "Safety" and click on the button "Clear browsing history".
And again we have a similar window, like in previous browsers. By selecting the necessary checkboxes, you can clear both cookies and the history of visits, downloads, and more.
The last browser on our list is Microsoft Edge. Clearing cookies here is also pretty simple. We go into the browser and click on the three dots in the upper right, then select "Parameters".
There we find the line "Clear browser settings" and just below click on the button "Choose what needs to be cleaned".
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Cookies are small files that the browser has written to the computer disk. They help to indicate what exactly will be displayed on the web page, and perform client identification. You should periodically clear your cookies to get rid of some browser problems so that you remain anonymous when logging in. In different browsers, the cleaning process is approximately the same, but there are some peculiarities. Let's consider how to delete cookies in browsers: IE, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera.
IE 7.0 for Windows 7. Run the menu commands: "Tools - Internet Options". Go to the "Browsing history" section, click "Delete". In the new window, check the boxes: "Cookies", "Temporary Internet files". Click "Delete". For IE 8.0, the series of actions is slightly different: "Tools - Internet Options - Security - Delete Browsing History". Check the boxes for each category to remove. For Windows 8 in IE 11.0, the algorithm for deleting cookies is shown in the screenshot. Signing in anonymously in IE provides InPrivate mode. It prevents the open site from writing cookies to the client's computer. Call InPrivate with the combination "Ctrl + Shift + P". The anonymity regime applies only to the open website. After closing the window, the normal viewing mode is active.
Many of you, perhaps, have heard such mysterious words more than once: cache (cache) and cookies (cookie) of the browser. Usually these terms go next to the verb "cleanse". What are these objects? How do you clean them? Let's look for answers to these questions.
So, browser cache - what is it? Traveling on the World Wide Web, we download various web pages for viewing and downloading materials. Most likely, we do not realize that the browser automatically saves certain types of information on the hard drive of our PC. A record consists of a collection of temporary files, for example:
- - page design elements;
- - graphics and pictures viewed by us;
- - the listened melody and so on.
For what? Answer: Speeding up the loading process of the same page when re-accessing it. The pace is increasing because information is now partially downloaded from files stored on your PC, and not from a server only remote from you. It's great! However, it is not complete without some problems. Which ones?
First, the number of such files increases over time. With regular use of the Internet, their volume quickly exceeds several gigabytes.
Secondly, since graphic elements are sent to the cache, this leads to incorrect display of sites that have updated the design. A similar picture is observed for some online games. These problems are not always resolved by refreshing the page.
The above arguments leave no doubt about the importance of periodically cleaning the cache.
Cookies are also temporary files. Personal information is stored there: password, login, identifier, e-mail address, and the like. Having opened the site, we immediately get to our page, to our account thanks to this saved data.
However, even here not everything is so simple. If you do not regularly clear the drive from cookies, this leads to a number of new problems. In particular, to hacking a mailbox, copying your personal data. Therefore, for complete control of confidential information, these files are systematically deleted. The table below shows how to clear cookies in a number of popular browsers.
Browser clearing technology (cookie)
| № p / p |
Browser name | Cleaning method |
| 1 | Google chrome | Sequence of actions: button "Menu" (3 stripes in the right corner) - section "Tools" - the command "Delete data on viewed pages". Pre-select the period. We delete cookies that have been stored for a certain time. For quick access to the line "Clear history" use the Ctrl + Shift + Delete keys. |
| 2 | Opera | The sequence of operations: "Menu" of the browser (Opera button on the upper left) - "Settings" - "Delete personal data". From the list that appears, select the items to be deleted. Click the Remove button. When we delete only certain Internet resources, click on "Manage cookies". Having selected sites for deletion, click - "Delete". |
| 3 | Yandex | Button "Menu" (gear) - "Tools" - "Delete data on viewed pages." Select the files to be deleted in the window and the "Delete" button. Quick access to "Clear history" through the set: Ctrl + Shift + Delete. |
| 4 | Mozilla firefox | Delete cookies in this browser using the command system: "Menu" - "Tools" - "Settings". Select the "Privacy" tab in this window. Click on "Clear your recent history". Then drop-down menu "Details". Selecting a period and a list to delete and clicking - "Clear now". Cookies for blogs, forums, portals are deleted through the commands: "Privacy" - "Delete individual cookies". We select from them the cookies of the sites to be deleted. Click: "Delete cookies", or "Delete all cookies". |
| 5 | Safari | Cookies are deleted in it according to the scheme: "Menu" (gear, upper corner) - "Settings" - "Privacy". The blocking of cookies is configured here. You can block access to advertisers and third parties. Or they are removed. There is a restriction, permission or site access to PC location data. In "Restricting access of websites to geolocation services" we move the radio button to the desired position. To delete all unnecessary data with one command, click "Delete all website data" and confirm it with the "Delete now" operation. The cache is also cleared by a set of keys: Ctrl + Alt + E. To remove all data left over from one or a group of sites, click "Details". Select the resource whose data you want to delete. Click "Delete". |
| 6 | Internet Explorer | In it, you can clear cookies through a set of commands: "Properties" (on the top panel) - "Delete browsing history" - "Delete browsing history". It is possible to delete data either individually or all at once through the “Delete all” command. Then we confirm the actions in the same window. |
We hope that you received the necessary information not just about how to clear the cache (cache) and cookies (cookie) of the browser. Now you know what their purpose is, and besides what is stored there.
