- Cookie files on your computer, while not edible, can still be considered a treat, as they help streamline and personalize your Internet search habits. Generally cookies are enabled on most browsers by default, but they could've been disabled in some cases. This article will show you how to enable cookies on your browser.
Cookie Enabling Tips
- Cookies are helpful, although some people distrust them.
- Cookies are small text files.
- Cookies are placed on your computer by websites.
- Cookies help websites remember who you are and how they can help you.
- Each browser has different requirements for enabling cookies.
- You can view and delete cookies on your computer.
About Cookies
- Computer cookies were named after fortune cookies, due to the hidden information contained inside of them.Wise Geek: What Are Computer Cookies? There are two types of computer cookies: temporary and permanent.Wise Geek: What Are Computer Cookies?
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Temporary Cookies
- Temporary cookies, sometimes called session cookies because they are used for only one session, are stored in your browser's memory rather than your computer hard drive and are deleted from memory as soon as you close your browser.Wise Geek: What Are Computer Cookies?
Permanent Cookies
- Permanent cookies are placed on your computer's hard drive by the websites you visit, and are permanently kept there unless you manually delete them.Wise Geek: What Are Computer Cookies?
How Cookies Work
- A cookie is not a program. It is simple text file, containing user information, created by a website and stored on a user's computer.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work When the user visits the website, the cookie allows the website to retrieve information about the user's previous visit to the website.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- This is how a computer cookie works:
- You type in a website address such as www.eBay.com. The browser you are using will then send a message to eBay's server, asking it for its home page.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- While the browser is "talking" to eBay's server, it is also looking on your computer for any cookie files that eBay has placed there. If it finds any eBay cookie files, it will send the IDs of the files to eBay's server.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- Next, eBay will respond to your server in one of two ways:How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- If your server did not send any cookies because you did not have any, the server will think that you have not visited eBay before.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- -The eBay server will create an ID for you (and keep a matching one) and send it back to your computer in the answer to your server.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- -Your computer will store it on your hard disk. This is the cookie data.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- If your server did send some eBay cookie files, because you have visited eBay in the past and it has deposited cookies on your computer, eBay will match the ID of the cookies with the ID of your data stored at eBay.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- -Thus loading up your preferences or password automatically (depending on what you have allowed eBay to do in the past).
- If your server did not send any cookies because you did not have any, the server will think that you have not visited eBay before.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
How to View Your Cookies
- The quickest and easiest way to find all the cookie data on your computer is to use the Find command.Computer Security: Cookies: How to Find Set it to search all the drives on your computer for cookie.Computer Security: Cookies: How to Find
- You will probably end up with both files and folders named cookies. This is normal.Computer Security: Cookies: How to Find
- Individual files will probably be named cookies.txt.Computer Security: Cookies: How to Find
How to Enable Cookies on Mozilla Firefox
Open the Tools menu.Google: Cookies
Click on the Privacy icon in the left panel.Google: Cookies
Check the box next to Allow sites to set cookies.Google: Cookies
Click on OK to save your changes.Google: Cookies
How to Enable Cookies on Netscape
Go to the Edit menu.Google: Cookies
Go to the Advanced category.Google: Cookies
Find the Cookies section.Google: Cookies
Select Accept all Cookies.Google: Cookies
How to Enable Cookies on Explorer 6.0 or newer
Go to the Tools menu.Google: Cookies
Click on Internet Options.Google: Cookies
Click on the tab marked Security.Google: Cookies
Click on the Custom Level link.Google: Cookies
Scroll down until you see the Cookies section.Google: Cookies
Find where it says Allow cookies that are stored on your computer and set it to Enable.Google: Cookies
Find where it says Allow per-session cookies and set it to Enable.Google: Cookies
How to Remove Cookies from Your PC
- Some people may not be comfortable with the idea of servers placing cookies on their computer without their knowledge. If this is the case for you, there is a way to remove the cookie files.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Click on My Computer.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Double-click the C drive.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Double-click the Windows folder.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Click Show Files.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Scroll down until you see the folder named Temporary Internet Files.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Look for the files that are named Cookie.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Right click on the file and select Delete.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Alternately, if you are using Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer as your browser, you can remove your cookies in one easy step by clicking on the Tools menu, choosing Internet Options and clicking on Delete Cookies.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
Conclusion
- Computer cookies are small text files which are automatically downloaded onto your computer when you visit certain websites.All About Cookies: FAQs Cookies help websites recognize repeat visitors and improve services to those visitors.All About Cookies: FAQs
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About Cookies
- Temporary Cookies
- Permanent Cookies
- How Cookies Work
- Cookie Enabling Tips
- How to View Your Cookies
- How to Enable Cookies on Mozilla Firefox
- How to Enable Cookies on Netscape
- How to Enable Cookies on Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer
- How to Remove Cookies from Your PC
- Conclusion
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