Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Steps to clear cookies and caches in internet browsers

In Our previous post we saw about the need to clear browser cookies and caches. In this post I will give you the steps to clear the cookies and caches for various internet browsers. These steps are only for windows operating system.

For Internet Explorer 6.0

1. On the Internet Explorer Tools menu, click Internet Options.
2. The Internet Options box should open to the General tab.
3. On the General tab, in the Temporary Internet Files section, click the Delete Files button.
4. From the same tab, select ‘Delete Cookies.’
5. Click “Close” and restart the browser.

For Internet Explorer 7.0

1. On the Internet Explorer Tools menu, click “Delete Browsing History.”
2. In the Temporary Internet Files section click on “Delete Files” and select “Yes.”
3. In the Cookies section click on “Delete Cookies” and select “Yes.”
4. Click “Close” and restart the browser.

For Safari

1. Open Safari.
2. Click Edit menu
3. Select Empty Cache.
4. Click Empty on the ‘Are you sure’ message box.
5. Exit and re launch the browser.
6. To delete your cookies, select preferences, then click on: Security tab->show cookies->remove all

For Opera

1. On the opera toolbar, click Tools and select “Preferences”
2. Choose “Advance” tab the “cookies” on the left side
3. Click “Manage Cookies”
4. And delete all the cookies
5. Exit and re launch browser

For Firefox

1) On the Firefox Tools menu, Click Clear private data
2) Select all the check boxes
3) Now click clear “Clear private data” button

If you know about the steps to clear browser cookies and caches in other operating systems, kindly write down in comments section.

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