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 Firefox cookies, other site data and cached web content.

• If you just want to clear the Firefox cache, see How to clear the Firefox cache.
• To clear your browsing history, cookies and temporarily cached files at once, see Delete browsing, search and download history on Firefox.
• To prevent websites from storing cookies on your computer, see Block websites from storing cookies and site data in Firefox.

Clear cookies for a single website

To delete cookies for one website:

1. In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and then select Preferences or Settings, depending on your macOS version.Click the menu button and select Settings.
2. Select the Privacy & Security panel and go to the Cookies and Site Data section.

   

3. Click the Manage Data… button. The Manage Cookies and Site Data dialog will appear.
4. In the Search websites field, type the name of the site whose cookies you want to remove. Items that match your search will be displayed.

   

   • To remove all cookies and storage data for the website, click Remove All Shown.
   • To remove selected items, select an entry and click Remove Selected.
5. Click Save Changes.
6. In the Removing Cookies and Site Data confirmation dialog that opens, click RemoveOK.
7. Close the about:preferences page.

To learn more about managing site data in Firefox, see Manage local site storage settings.

Note: You can remove individual website cookies in Firefox version 60 and below, using the Page Info window Security tab View Cookies button. You can also use the Storage Inspector to remove individual cookies for a specific website, via the right-click context menu. To open the Storage Inspector, go to the menu button Web Developer submenu or press Shift + F9 on the keyboard.

Clear all cookies, site data and cache

1. In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and then select Preferences or Settings, depending on your macOS version.Click the menu button and select Settings.
2. Select the Privacy & Security panel and go to the Cookies and Site Data section.
3. Click the Clear Data… button. The Clear Data dialog will appear.

   

   • Cookies and Site Data (to remove login status and site preferences) and Cached Web Content (to remove stored images, scripts and other cached content) should both be check marked.
4. Click Clear.

Clear all cookies and keep other data

To delete only cookies while keeping other data, do the following:

1. Click the menu button and click Library (or click the Library button in the toolbar).
2. Click History and then click Clear Recent History….
3. Set Time range to clear: to Everything (if you don't see a list of history items, click the arrow next to Details to expand the list).

   

4. Select Cookies and make sure that other items you want to keep are not selected.
5. Click Clear Now to clear all cookies and close the Clear All History window.