Clear cookies and site data in Firefox
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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.
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Clear cookies for the current website
To use this new feature, please update Firefox if you don't have the latest version.
- Click the Site Info buttonpadlock at the left of the address bar.
- Click .
Clear cookies for any website
To delete cookies for any single website:
- In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click and then select or , depending on your macOS version.Click the menu button and select .
- Select the
- Click the button. The Manage Cookies and Site Data dialog will appear.
- 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 .
- To remove selected items, select an entry and click .
- Click .
- In the Removing Cookies and Site Data confirmation dialog that opens, click .
- 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 tab 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 submenu or press Shift + F9 on the keyboard.
Clear all cookies, site data and cache
- In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click and then select or , depending on your macOS version.Click the menu button and select .
- Select the panel and go to the Cookies and Site Data section.
- Click the
- 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.
button. The Clear Data dialog will appear.
- Click .
Clear all cookies and keep other data
To delete only cookies while keeping other data, do the following:
- Click the menu button and click (or click the Library button in the toolbar).
- Click and then click .
- 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).
- Select Cookies and make sure that other items you want to keep are not selected.
- Click to clear all cookies and close the Clear All History window.