How to Clear Your Browser's Cookies

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Online safety is the number one priority for many people in the world today. Clearing your Internet browser's cookies can help by deleting the information that websites have gathered about you and stored on your computer as small text files. Most of these files are completely harmless, but others store where you went, what you did, and any personal information you gave. Web sites may also allow other websites (their advertisers, for example) to put cookies, known as third-party cookies, on your computer. This is a simple guide to clear your browser's cookies to ensure that companies are not keeping tabs on what you do online.

Steps

1. Open your browser. Since each browser is set up differently, we will look at the process for each of the four major browsers: Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 1.5, Opera, and Konqueror.
   

Internet Explorer 6

1. Once your browser is open, select the Tools menu and click Internet Options and select the General tab.
   
2. To delete all cookies, in the Temporary Internet Files section, click Delete Cookies and press OK.
   
3. If you wish to delete only specific cookies and keep others, instead of Step 2:
   
   1. Click the Settings button, then click View Files.
      
   2. Scroll through the list and select the cookies you want to delete.
      
   3. Multiple cookies can be selected by holding down the CTRL key while clicking.
      
   4. Press the Delete key.
      
   5. Press OK on any dialog boxes that appear.
      
   
   

Firefox 1.5

1. Once your browser is open, select the Tools menu and click Options (may also be under Edit -> Preferences depending on your version) and select the Privacy button.
   
2. Select the Cookies tab.
   
3. To delete all cookies click the Delete All Cookies button.
   
4. To delete specific cookies, click View Cookies and look through the list of the sites you wish to delete the cookies for, and press Remove Cookies. You can even expand each site to delete specific cookes from each site.
   

Opera

1. Once your browser is open, select the Tools menu and click Delete Private Data and click the Details button.
   
2. If you wish to keep things such as history, saved passwords, cache, etc., uncheck those items and click Delete. You may get a dialog that says "Active transfer has not been removed." if you are currently downloading a file.
   
3. If you want to only delete certain cookies, click Tools and hover Advanced and click Cookies. From this screen, you can search for and select cookies to be deleted. To do so, select the select the site or the individual cookie and click Delete.
   

Konqueror

1. Once your browser is open, selec the Settings menu and click Configure Konqueror.
   
2. Scroll down and select Cookies.
   
3. Click the Management tab.
   
4. Select the cookies you wish to delete and click Delete, or click Delete All to delete all cookies.
   

Tips

• It is a good idea to clear your browser's cookies on a regular basis.
  
• You can disable or restrict cookies through the sections above. This is recommended for security reasons, but will render some sites inoperable. It is possible to only allow cookies for sites that you specify.
  
• It is a good time to clear your browser's cache while you are clearing the cookies. The cache stores information, images, and web pages on your computer for quick and easy access. Hackers can obtain crippling financial information from your cache if you're not careful.
  

Warnings

• Deleting cookies often means that you will have to re-login to sites that you have specified to automatically keep you logged in. This is not necessarily so if you have set your browser to save your password instead.
  
• Not deleting cookies regularly allows companies and advertisers more about you than you may wish them to.
  
• The use of Internet Explorer may help lead to identity theft, because it allows the use of ActiveX controls. While not directly related to cookies, ActiveX controls pose an immediate threat to Windows users that visit websites that use ActiveX controls to exploit security flaws in Internet Explorer. Experts reccommend more secure browsers, such as Firefox or Opera.
  

Related wikiHows

• Block and Accept Cookies in Internet Explorer
  
• Clear Your Browser's Cache
  
• Be Safe While Online
  
• Use a Credit Card Online
  

Sources and Citations

• Download Firefox
  
• Download Opera
  

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EULA What is it?

Anyone and everyone that has ever used the computer and accessed the internet knows what EULA is or at least has seen it or have had to agree to it or by pass it. EULA is the "end users license agreement" also known as "click wrap contracts. How many of you ever read the full license agreement before you click yes to download? I know I sure have at most skimmed through the content to get the jest of it. You can't sign up for many accounts or downloads without agreeing to some kind of agreement.

Before I read an article in my new PC Magazine by Dan Costa "Jumping Through EULA Hoops" I never really thought to much about it. He brings up really great info that we just are not aware of for the most part. All we know is that we want that software downloaded or we want that Yahoo email account and so on. Dan's article is on page 68 of the PC Magazine Special 25th Anniversary Double Issue January 2008.

If you get the chance you should read the article because as Dan states there is no discussion between the user and the vendor, you click yes to use the software on the vendor's terms or look elsewhere. However he also stated that earlier this year a California appeals court struck down a mandatory arbitration clause in T- Mobile's EULA because the court decided that because the agreement was written by superior bargaining strength and the customer was given no ability to negotiate just a simple yes or no choice. The court said the agreement was unconscionable.

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