Get Help Volunteer Sign In/Up Home Firefox Protect your privacy Cookies and cache Clear cookies and site data in Firefox Customize this article Download Firefox Systems and Languages What's New Privacy Clear cookies and site data in Firefox 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. Table of Contents Clear cookies for the current website Clear cookies for any website Clear all cookies, site data and cache Clear all cookies and keep other data Clear cookies for the current website To delete cookies and site data for a website you're currently visiting: Click the padlock at the left of the address bar. Click Clear Cookies and Site data . Clear cookies for any website To delete cookies for any single website: Click the menu button and select Settings. Select the Privacy & Security panel and go to the Cookies and Site Data section. Click the Manage Data… 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 Remove All Shown . To remove selected items, select an entry and click Remove Selected . Click Save Changes . In the Removing Cookies and Site Data confirmation dialog that opens, click OK . Close the about:preferences page. To learn more about managing site data in Firefox, see Manage local site storage settings and Enhanced Cookie Clearing. Note: You can 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 Click the menu button and select Settings. Select the Privacy & Security panel and go to the Cookies and Site Data section. 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. Click Clear . Clear all cookies and keep other data To delete only cookies while keeping other data, do the following: Click the menu button . Click History and then click Clear Recent History…. Set Time range to clear: to Everything. Select Cookies and make sure that other items you want to keep are not selected. Click OK to clear all cookies and close the Clear All History window. Was this article helpful? Yes👍 No👎 These fine people helped write this article: AliceWyman, Chris Ilias, Underpass, novica, Tonnes, smo, Michael Verdi, scoobidiver, Swarnava Sengupta, soucet, Joergen, ideato, Mozinet, user832823, Lan, pollti, scootergrisen, Joni, Ömer Timur, risirajdey, Fabi Volunteer Grow and share your expertise with others. Answer questions and improve our knowledge base. Learn More Related Articles How to clear the Firefox cache The Firefox cache temporarily stores images, scripts, and other parts of websites you visit in order to speed up your browsing experience. This... 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