Any Firefox users out there? How do you

[babylonsister]

delete cookies? I went and asked, says to go to Task Bar, but I can't even find that. Help for this technically challenged person is welcomed!:)

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Check in...

Tools>options>privacy>cookies.

[babylonsister]

6. That's my problem. I don't have 'Privacy' as a sub-category.

All I have are Fonts & Colors/Language/Default Browser/Connections (full of stuff about proxies). There is no privacy ctegory. :shrug:

[Mass]

12. At the left of the windows with all these options. there should be a

menu with :

General
Privacy
Web features
Download
Advanced

[babylonsister]

21. That's what I needed. I'm so clueless!

Thanks, Mass. :hug:

[Lautremont]

16. Mine is the same as yours.

I'm stymied too - just thought I'd let you know you aren't alone.

And there are no "preferences" under edit for me.

[SpiralHawk]

26. Preferences are under Firefox, not edit

Click preferences

Then Pivacy...

Clear the cache

[Peachhead22]

17. In that options menu you're in...

...where you say there's things like Font&Colors and all that? It's because you're in the "General" sub-category of options. I'm not sure how Firefox looks in your OS, but in mine there's a white window just to the left of Fonts&Colors, etc. That's where the icon for the "Privacy" subcategory should be. Once you click on that 'Privacy' icon the 'delete cookies' button is second from the bottom.

[rockymountaindem]

2. Tools - Options - Privacy

It'll be right there :)

[babylonsister]

8. There is no 'privacy' under my tools/options; see post#6. nt

[shanine]

3. go under "tools"

then click on options in the drop down menu . . . cookies are under "privacy" hit "clear"

[Moochy]

4. control-shift-delete

I found this keyboard shortcut yesterday by accident:

CTRL-SHIFT-DELETE

brings up a handy popup menu that prompts for cleaning private data from the browser any time!

enjoy! I guess if you are on a MAC that's still control-shift-delete.

[flowomo]

5. Under tools/options/privacy/cookies

on the bar above the browser

[babylonsister]

7. There is no 'privacy' under my tools/options; see post#6. nt

[toddaa]

9. On Linux it's Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy

The other posts maybe referring to the Windows version, but on Linux it's under the Edit menu on my version.

[dogman]

10. If you're on a mac, click Firefox,Preferences. Click on cookies in the

dropdown menu.

[longship]

11. Edit --> Preferences --> Privacy

The Linux version has it here.

[LiberalArkie]

13. Click Edit - Preferences - then Privacy

[eek]

14. i'm a Mac-ist.

When using F'fox I click the 'Firefox' word in menu bar thingy.
Select 'preferences" which gives me another window.

Select 'privacy'

Cookies, cache and so on are there for the clearin'

[Moochy]

15. CTRL-SHIFT-DELETE

trust me. press all three characters on your keyboard at once.

it will bring up a cleaning your personal data menu that will let you kill cookies or whatever you want.

[toddaa]

18. Smart ass

Let me guess, you work at the help desk.

[Moochy]

22. Nah just technically nerdly

If I said press ctrl-ALT-delete then I could be considered a smartass.
:) ie. if i told her to reboot her pc by accident. (I think the OP's got a mac, running firefox v1.0 )

I think that her problem is that she's using firefox 1.0 on a mac, and the kb shortcut options are the same for 1.5.

[babylonsister]

27. No Mac here, Windows XP, with lots of IE problems; thus,

Firefox.

[Moochy]

29. Ahh then if you download the new version 1.5 of Firefox

then my keyboard shortcut advice will be valid :D

PS love your screen name btw :)

[ellenfl]

19. depending on which version you have . . . try 'tools' then 'options'.

the ctrl-shift-del thing didn't work for me.

ellen fl

[Moochy]

23. Yep its a FF 1.5 thing, sorry for being so PC :)

[Ksec]

20. I ran firefox for about 6 months

I proceeded to download the Google home page personalisation and my computer failed completely. Firefox would not allow me to do anything.

I dumped it and went back with Windows ME. No more problems .

[Moochy]

25. I too have seen ff go scewy

depending on how much plug-ins you get ff can be unstable, but in my experience a clean reinstall with no 3rd party plug-ins has always fixed unexplained glitches. (except yahoo mail.. its login still freaks with my firefox 1.5 on pc)

[babylonsister]

24. I figured it out and you all helped.

I wasn't looking closely enough on the options page; the icons on the left is where I needed to go but didn't see them. How did I miss them?
Thank you all for your help! :toast:

[natrat]

28. Tools- Clear Private Data

this is on the newest vesion
very convenient