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Mon Oct-17-05 07:42 PM
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Any Firefox users out there? How do you |
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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!:)
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:44 PM
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Edited on Mon Oct-17-05 07:44 PM by Tandalayo_Scheisskop
Tools>options>privacy>cookies.
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babylonsister
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:46 PM
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6. That's my problem. I don't have 'Privacy' as a sub-category. |
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All I have are Fonts & Colors/Language/Default Browser/Connections (full of stuff about proxies). There is no privacy ctegory. :shrug:
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:50 PM
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12. At the left of the windows with all these options. there should be a |
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menu with :
General Privacy Web features Download Advanced
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Mon Oct-17-05 08:10 PM
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21. That's what I needed. I'm so clueless! |
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:53 PM
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16. Mine is the same as yours. |
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I'm stymied too - just thought I'd let you know you aren't alone.
And there are no "preferences" under edit for me.
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Mon Oct-17-05 08:14 PM
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26. Preferences are under Firefox, not edit |
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Click preferences
Then Pivacy...
Clear the cache
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Mon Oct-17-05 08:01 PM
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17. In that options menu you're in... |
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...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.
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:44 PM
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2. Tools - Options - Privacy |
babylonsister
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:48 PM
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8. There is no 'privacy' under my tools/options; see post#6. nt |
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:44 PM
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then click on options in the drop down menu . . . cookies are under "privacy" hit "clear"
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:45 PM
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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.
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:45 PM
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5. Under tools/options/privacy/cookies |
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on the bar above the browser
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:48 PM
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7. There is no 'privacy' under my tools/options; see post#6. nt |
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:48 PM
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9. On Linux it's Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy |
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The other posts maybe referring to the Windows version, but on Linux it's under the Edit menu on my version.
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:48 PM
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10. If you're on a mac, click Firefox,Preferences. Click on cookies in the |
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:49 PM
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11. Edit --> Preferences --> Privacy |
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The Linux version has it here.
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:50 PM
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13. Click Edit - Preferences - then Privacy |
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:52 PM
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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'
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Mon Oct-17-05 07:53 PM
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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.
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Mon Oct-17-05 08:04 PM
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Let me guess, you work at the help desk.
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Mon Oct-17-05 08:11 PM
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22. Nah just technically nerdly |
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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.
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Mon Oct-17-05 08:32 PM
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27. No Mac here, Windows XP, with lots of IE problems; thus, |
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Mon Oct-17-05 08:47 PM
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29. Ahh then if you download the new version 1.5 of Firefox |
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Edited on Mon Oct-17-05 08:56 PM by Moochy
then my keyboard shortcut advice will be valid :D
PS love your screen name btw :)
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Mon Oct-17-05 08:06 PM
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19. depending on which version you have . . . try 'tools' then 'options'. |
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Edited on Mon Oct-17-05 08:08 PM by ellenfl
the ctrl-shift-del thing didn't work for me.
ellen fl
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Mon Oct-17-05 08:12 PM
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23. Yep its a FF 1.5 thing, sorry for being so PC :) |
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Edited on Mon Oct-17-05 08:14 PM by Moochy
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Mon Oct-17-05 08:09 PM
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20. I ran firefox for about 6 months |
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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 .
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Mon Oct-17-05 08:13 PM
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25. I too have seen ff go scewy |
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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)
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Mon Oct-17-05 08:12 PM
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24. I figured it out and you all helped. |
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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:
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Mon Oct-17-05 08:41 PM
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28. Tools- Clear Private Data |
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Edited on Mon Oct-17-05 08:43 PM by natrat
this is on the newest vesion very convenient
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