Tuesday, August 13, 2013

How to Delete Cookies in Mozilla Firefox?

Cookies are text files on the hard drive of a local computer that gets stored whenever a user surfs the internet. These cookies undertake a position of knowing the browsing history and also identify the respective user. Cookies also prepare customization of web browsing and of given webpages. In this article, we discuss the methods to delete cookies in Mozilla Firefox.
Fast deletion of cookies from 'tools' menu
This is a very fast way of deleting cookies from the Mozilla Firefox browsing history. One would have to select the 'tools' menu from Mozilla Firefox. Then select 'clear recent history' and check box that is next to 'cookies'. Other boxes must not be checked from where the deletion is not to be done. Once these steps get followed check 'clear now' button to remove the items or cookies from the hard drive.
Cookie deletion using menu
Another method of deleting cookies from the Mozilla Firefox is to obtain the same path for selecting 'Tools' from Mozilla Firefox. From the 'Tools' option one would have to select 'Options' as the next step. Selecting the 'Privacy' tab is one of the next steps to deleting a cookie. One would have to hit the 'Firefox Will' tab and choose 'Use custom settings from history'. One would have to use 'Keep Until' dropdown box for the number of hours, days the cookies need to be kept with hard-drive. As the next part in deleting cookies the user would have to hit 'Show Cookies' and also the 'Remove Cookie' button.

Automatic deletion
Automatic deletion is a new method of deleting cookies from a given number of days from the hard drive of the system. For this you need to follow the given procedure:-
In the address bar, one would type 'about-config' and press enter.
Finding the filter field, user searches for "network.cookie.lifetimePolicy".
Double clicking the entry to a given value, uptil the number of days the cookies would be kept under entry.
User should then search for entry "network.cookie.lifetime.days".
Double click the entry to change its value to the given number of days.
Close the about.config window.
Cookie deletion from plugin
Click and clean Firefox add-on and few other plugins from firefox, deletes cookies from the Mozilla Firefox browsing history. These are Firefox plugin that can render cookie deletions from user's browsing history and local system.
Click and clean
The cookie deletion from click and clean erases all the downloaded file history, flash cookies, cookies and other history. The plugin deletes the private data from browsing.
Ghostery
The ghostery plugin includes blocking scripts from companies that one cannot trust, deleting local objects, even blocking images and iframes.
BetterPrivacy
The better privacy plugin is a plugin for removing flash cookies only from the system. This is a free tool for removing cookies from the local system.
No Script
Extra protections from the plugin include free open source deletion for the given websites and webpages to a given user.

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1 comment:

  1. These tips are very simple and useful. Thank you for sharing with us. Keep up the good works.
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