Cookies are stored on your computer by websites you visit and contain information such as site preferences or login status. This article describes how to delete cookies in Firefox.
- To clear your browsing history, cookies, and temporarily cached files at once, see Clear Recent History.
- To clear your browsing history, cookies, and temporarily cached files at once, see Clearing Private Data.
- To prevent websites from storing cookies on your computer, see Blocking cookies.
Delete cookies for a single site
To delete cookies for one site:
- At the top of the Firefox windowOn the menu bar, click on the ToolsFirefoxEdit menu, and select Options…Preferences….
- Select the Privacy panel.
- Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history.
- Click Show Cookies…. The Cookies window will appear.
- 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.
- Select the cookie(s) in the list to remove and click Remove Cookie.
- Select the first cookie and press Shift+End to select all the cookies in the list.
- Click Close to closeClose the Cookies window.
Delete cookies for a single site
To delete cookies for one site:
- At the top of the Firefox windowOn the menu bar, click on the ToolsFirefoxEdit menu, and select Options…Preferences….
- Select the Privacy panel.
- Click Show Cookies…. The Cookies window will appear.
- 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.
- Select the cookie(s) in the list to remove and click Remove Cookie.
- Select the first cookie and press Shift+End to select all the cookies in the list.
- Click Close to closeClose the Cookies window.
- Click OK to close the Options windowClick Close to close the Preferences windowClose the Preferences window
Delete all cookies
To delete all cookies stored on your computer:
- Click on the Tools menu and select Clear Recent History….
- Set Time range to clear to Everything.
- Click on the arrow next to Details to expand the list of history items.
- Select Cookies and make sure that other items you want to keep are not selected.
- Click Clear Now to clear the cookies and close the Clear Recent History window.
