How To Delete Cookies

To delete cookies, follow the instructions below for your web browser version:

Windows Internet Explorer 7

1. Exit Internet Explorer 7.
2. Click Start, click Run, type inetcpl.cpl, and then press ENTER.
3. On the General tab, click Delete under Browsing History in the Internet Properties dialog box.
4. In the Delete Browsing History dialog box, click Delete Cookies.
5. In the Delete Cookies dialog box, click Yes.

Follow these steps to see if there are any cookies left:

1. In the Internet Properties dialog box, on the General tab, click Settings under Browsing History.
2. In the Temporary Internet Files and History Settings dialog box, click View Files. This opens the folder where your cookie files are stored.
3. In the folder that has just opened, verify that there are no .txt files.

Firefox / Mozilla

Click on Tools, then Options
Select the Privacy icon in the left-hand panel
Click on Cookies
Click on View Cookies
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the Remove Cookie button
To remove all cookies click on the Remove All Cookies button

Windows Internet Explorer 5 & 6

To delete all cookies:
  1. Open Internet Explorer, click the Tools menu and choose Internet Options.
  2. Click the Delete Cookies button.
  3. Click OK.
To delete certain cookies:
  1. Open Internet Explorer, click the Tools menu and choose Internet Options.
  2. Click the Settings button.
  3. Click the View Files button.
  4. Click the View menu and select Details.
  5. Click the Internet Address column header to sort, then locate the Internet addresses of the cookie files. For example, a cookie Internet address may be named similar to the following: Cookie:user@websitename.com
  6. Highlight the cookies you wish to delete, then press the Delete key.

Windows Internet Explorer 4

  1. Open Internet Explorer
  2. On the view menu, click Internet Options, and click the Settings button.
  3. Click the View Files button.
  4. Click the View menu and Select Details.
  5. Click the Internet Address column header to sort, then locate the Internet Addresses of the cookie files. For example, a cookie Internet address may be named similar to the following: Cookie:user@websitename.com
  6. Highlight the cookies you wish to delete, then press the Delete key.

Macintosh Internet Explorer 4.5 & 5

  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. Click the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
  3. Expand the Receiving Files category by click the triangle to the left, and click Cookies
  4. Select the item or cookies you want to delete in the Server list and click Delete.

Windows Netscape 4.x

Netscape bundles all web site cookies into one file. This file cannot be edited. If you wish to remove one cookie, you must remove them all by deleting the cookie file.
  1. Locate the Netscape folder on your hard drive (usually located in c:/Program Files/Netscape/).
  2. Double click the Users folder within the Netscape folder.
  3. Double click your Profile Name folder (this will usually be your username).
  4. Click the cookies.txt file once to highlight it, then click the File menu and choose Delete.

Macintosh Netscape 4.x

Netscape bundles all web site cookies into one file. This file cannot be edited. If you wish to remove one cookie, you must remove them all by deleting the cookie file.
  1. Double click the Hard Drive icon and open the System Folder.
  2. Double click Preferences and locate the Netscape Users folder.
  3. Double click Your Profile folder.
  4. Single click the MagicCookie file so that it is highlighted, click the File menu and choose Move to trash
  5. Or, drag and the MagicCookie file to the Trash folder.

Netscape 7

  1. Click the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager
  2. Choose Manage Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.
  3. Select one or more cookies and click Remove Cookie, or click Remove All Cookies.

Opera for Macintosh

  1. Click on Window then Special Window and select Cookies.
  2. You can click the cookie files listed in the folders. To delete a cookie, highlight the file you want to delete. Press the Shift key to select multiple files.
  3. Click the Delete button.
  4. The ones remaining will be saved.

Opera for Windows

Opera supports the exact same format for setting cookies as Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. This means that Opera will be able to accept all cookies that work with these browsers. Cookies are stored in the file named cookies4.dat located in the main Opera directory (usually C:\Program Files\Opera). It is not possible to edit the file cookies4.dat by hand in order to remove unwanted cookies from your hard drive, but you can download the Opera File Explorer and use this tool to view your cookies. Taken from Opera Support