Cookies, those small data files that can do good (saving preferences or session information) or bad (tracking), have all an expiration date. The expiration date is set by the webmaster of each visited website and can range from seconds or minutes to years. Cookies will expire eventually and when they do they cannot be used [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Firefox users have several options at hand to delete private browsing data. This includes running the browser in private browsing mode, configuring it to delete the data on shutdown or running the clear recent history module manually to delete some or all data this way. Veteran users may remember a time when the browser displayed [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Question on how to clear individual cookies in the Google Chrome web browser just came up and I thought I write a small guide here on Ghacks about it. Google Chrome, just like any other modern web browser, accepts all cookies by default. Cookies are small data packages that are saved by domains on your [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Adobe announced in January that they would better integrate Flash Player with browser privacy controls for managing local storage. It basically meant that the storage of future Adobe Flash Player versions could be controlled directly by a web browser’s web history deletion options. Flash Cookies, or local shared objects, are stored outside of the browser’s [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Yesterday I have published a tutorial on clearing the browser cache which is an essential thing to know. Today I’m going to show you how to delete cookies from your PC, which is another basic but very helpful thing to know. This article addresses only standard cookies, not Flash cookies. Cookies are small files that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

Flash cookies are a new way of tracing your movement and storing a lot more information about you than with normal cookies. One major disadvantage of flash cookies is that you can’t locate them in your browser. They are not shown in the list of cookies that you can see when you take a look at the cookies that are currently saved in your web browser. Normal HTTP cookies can’t save more than 4 Kilobyte of data while Flash cookies can save up to 100 Kilobyte. If you want to try out how they work you could do the following.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, ie, Opera, Security