How do I delete my cookies in my browser?
What? my computer has cookies in it? How do I get them out? I’m hungry!
Not exactly those kind of cookies. Cookies in computer terms are little files on your computer (harddrive) that stores some information about you. They can store your preferences for certain websites, your authentication information if you need to login etc.
Have you ever been told you should delete your cookies? Well, generally this is a good practice as it will remove these text files from your computer and in the process clean away your personal information as well. There are some drawbacks when doing this, as it will *forget* all your stored authenication information for sites.
If your browser is set to remember your passwords, it will still know them when you login, but setting this option is not a recommended practice
To remove your cookies in IE follow these steps:
Tools \ Internet Options \ Browsing History \ Delete button
on the popup remove the check marks from all options but Cookies
To remove your cookies in FireFox follow these steps:
Tools \ Options \ Privacy Tab \ remove individual cookies
from here, you can remove individual sites cookies, or all.
To remove your cookies in Chrome follow these steps:
Wrench \ Options \ Personal Stuff \ Clear Browsing Data… \ Delete Cookies \ Clear browsing Data
As you can see on those pages, there is other options for passwords, browsing history and some other options. I also recommend that you periodically update / remove these bits of your personal information as well.
Clearing your Cookies is something that you should do time to time just to make sure that you have removed the settings, and personal data for websites from your computer.
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Going Incognito
Have you ever been asked to disable your firewall or antivirus by tech support people for testing and they want you to surf on the net without protection just to test something.
If you are using google chrome or FireFox there is a way that you can surf an let your browser protect you a little. There is an option called private browsing or surf incognito that will stop the sites that you surf from saving cookies onto your computer. This will help when you are unsure if a site will try to put something on your PC. It will be removed as soon as you close the browser.
This protection can also be used to keep sites that you visit from being recorded into the history of the browser. Let’s say you want to surf some sites that you don’t want other people that might use the computer to know that you went to. Like at a internet cafe or library or school. You can start a private browsing session and surf to your online mail site or your banking site. All information will not be stored in the history so it adds another level of security for you.
Hope this helps you at some point.
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Stop webpages from resizing in Firefox
Have you ever visited a site, and all of a sudden your browser goes full screen? If you’re like me you like to use your windows at a specific size and not at the full screen size. I use a widescreen monitor, and most sites don’t use all the available realestate, so I size my windows. This way I can have a few of them open and displayed at the same time.
Here is how you can stop Firefox from resizing, so those annoying scripts can’t take control of your browser, and force you to view the site maximized.
Open up Firefox, and go to tools / options.
Select the Content Tab.
On the selection for Enable Java Script, select Advanced.
Locate the option for move or resize existing windows
On the Advanced Java script pop-up window, remove the check mark from “Move or Resize existing existing windows”.
Select “Ok”, and Choose “Ok” on the next window.
Now your browser will not be resized as you surf to new pages. This will not stop new windows (or pop-ups) from being opened to the maximum size, but your open widows will not be resized.
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