Cookies And Browser Privacy
How to Manage Firefox and Google Chrome Browser Cookies for Better Privacy:
Manage Cookies in Firefox
To manage cookies in Firefox, click on the settings icon and then click on Options.
Firefox options:
Now click on Privacy and you will see a link at the bottom called Clear your recent history. You can click on that and it will bring up another window where you can check a box for cookies and then delete them for a specific time period or for all time.
Firefox privacy:
You can also click on the Remove individual cookies link to get a window will all the currently stored cookies and what data they contain.
Firefox cookies:
To configure first-party and third-party cookies in Firefox, you have to click on the dropdown that says Remember history and change that to Use custom settings for history.
Firefox custom settings:
Accept cookies from sites is the same as first-party cookies. By default, third-party cookies are always accepted also, which is pretty much how every browser is configured. You can change the setting from Always to Visited or Never. I really like the visited option because it will not allow websites that you haven’t visited to store cookies locally. This will block a lot of advertising cookies.
Manage Cookies in Google Chrome:
For Chrome, you need to click on the menu button and then click on Settings.
Chrome settings:
Now scroll down to the bottom of the settings page and click on Show advanced settings.
Chrome advanced settings:
Under Privacy, you’ll see two buttons: Content settings and Clear browsing data. To quickly remove all cookies, just click the latter and then check the Cookies and other site and plug-in data box.
Clear cookies chrome:
By default, it’s set to only clear data from the past hour, so you will want to change that accordingly. If you click on the Content settings button, you can block all cookies, only third-party cookies or clear it out every time you quit the browser.
Chrome content settings:
You can see each cookie that is stored individually by clicking on the All cookies and site data button. Chrome is nice because it even includes a search box to let you quickly find a cookie from a specific site.
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Manage Cookies in Firefox
To manage cookies in Firefox, click on the settings icon and then click on Options.
Firefox options:
Now click on Privacy and you will see a link at the bottom called Clear your recent history. You can click on that and it will bring up another window where you can check a box for cookies and then delete them for a specific time period or for all time.
Firefox privacy:
You can also click on the Remove individual cookies link to get a window will all the currently stored cookies and what data they contain.
Firefox cookies:
To configure first-party and third-party cookies in Firefox, you have to click on the dropdown that says Remember history and change that to Use custom settings for history.
Firefox custom settings:
Accept cookies from sites is the same as first-party cookies. By default, third-party cookies are always accepted also, which is pretty much how every browser is configured. You can change the setting from Always to Visited or Never. I really like the visited option because it will not allow websites that you haven’t visited to store cookies locally. This will block a lot of advertising cookies.
Manage Cookies in Google Chrome:
For Chrome, you need to click on the menu button and then click on Settings.
Chrome settings:
Now scroll down to the bottom of the settings page and click on Show advanced settings.
Chrome advanced settings:
Under Privacy, you’ll see two buttons: Content settings and Clear browsing data. To quickly remove all cookies, just click the latter and then check the Cookies and other site and plug-in data box.
Clear cookies chrome:
By default, it’s set to only clear data from the past hour, so you will want to change that accordingly. If you click on the Content settings button, you can block all cookies, only third-party cookies or clear it out every time you quit the browser.
Chrome content settings:
You can see each cookie that is stored individually by clicking on the All cookies and site data button. Chrome is nice because it even includes a search box to let you quickly find a cookie from a specific site.
Happy Reading!
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