You might heard about the disadvantages of ‘cookies’? How could you delete cookies from your PC or laptop? Cookies store information about your preferences and websites. They can send data back to the webpage’s that you visit. They are beneficial because they save your user data each time you visit a website and store a lot more information. Deleting your cookies and browsing history is considered to be a useful periodic task and really very simple. You have to follow the instructions for all the four main web browsers you use; because they don’t all share a common group of cookies and websites you have visited.

In Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome browser and select Settings from the list by clicking on the icon with three horizontal lines located at the top right of the chrome window.
  2. Select History from the left hand column in Settings menu. Click Clear browsing data, check the cookies box and you can also check the other items in the list if necessary. The drop down box at the top lets you choose the time period and you can wipe out data from the past hour, year, day, week etc.

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  1. It also deletes specific cookies. To do this, go to settings and click Show advanced settings. There go to Privacy section and click content settings
  2. Click on All cookies and site data to see list of stored cookies. In this section you will delete and block specific cookies.
  3. Probably there is a long list, if you need keep cookies for your favorite sites and delete other sites.

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In Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox browser and go to settings page from the list by clicking on the icon with three horizontal lines located at the top right of the Firefox window.
  2. Click on the Privacy tab in the settings page.
  3. Go to clear your recent history link and click on Clear Now button,
  4. This will delete your browsing history and Cookies.
  5. You will also set the time range to clear all your browsing history and Cookies.

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In Apple’s Safari:

  1. Open your Safari browser and click on the settings icon located at the top right of the window.
  2. Click on preferences option and go to the Privacy
  3. Click on remove all website data in the privacy tab.
  4. On the next screen click on remove now
  5. This will clear all your Cookies and other website data from your browser.

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In Internet Explorer:

  1. Open your Internet explorer browser.
  2. In the menu bar, go to Tools option and choose Internet Options.
  3. You will see a new window; in that click on Delete.
  4. It will let you delete your temporary internet files, cookies, history, form data, passwords you’ve allowed your browser to save and in private filtering data.
  5. It will also clear your preserve favorite’s website data.

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