How to Clear Cookies in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, IE, Opera and Safari

Cookies stores the data regarding the websites you have visited. This can be accessed either by the user computer or by the web server. Cookies were devised to know the server about your preference so that the server recognize you and provide suggestions and recommendations as per your interest next time you browse in and sometimes to remember your credentials like your username and password to any site you frequently visit if you allow. This can be useful at times, but these days there is always the fear of being the victim of spammers trying to steal data. It is necessary that you clear cookies at regular interval of time to protect yourself from Spammers and also to improve the efficiency of a web browser.

The procedure of clearing cookies differs from one browser to another. In this article, we provide you the detailed, simplified and updated procedure to delete cookies from some of the popular Web Browser of these days. So let’s begin:

Clear Cookies from Chrome

The procedure of clearing cookies in chrome has been changed recently. Below is the updated procedure to clear cookies from Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome on your device.
2. Click the menu option at the top right of the page. The menu option is three small dots arranged vertically that lies at the top rightmost corner of the page just below the close(cross) icon.
3. Once you click on the menu, a drop-down list will appear from among the list click on Settings option as shown in the picture below:
   
4. This will lead you to a separate settings page. Go to the bottom of the page and click on “Advanced“.
5. Scroll down and find the option “Clear browsing data“. This menu contains submenus like Clear history, cookies, cache, and more that will help you locate the options more easily.
6. A separate sub window will appear. Since you are here to delete cookies, from among the various options in the window first of all mark the option cookies and other site data. If you want to delete other items like browsing history, downloads, cache memories, and others mark them as well. After that click on the drop-down menu to select the time from when you want to delete the cookies. If you’re going to remove the entire cookies from your browser, then select “Beginning of time“.
7. Now finally click on the “Clear Browsing Data”. And all the cookies will be deleted from your chrome.

All your cookies are now deleted from the Google Chrome browser.

Since all the cookies are cleared, you can now feel the difference in the browsing speed, search results, Ads you see, recommendations for videos on YouTube, etc. Besides all these, you are safe from the chance of losing your personal information to spammers.

Clear Cookies from Firefox Browser

1. Open Firefox browser on any device you prefer.
2. Click on the settings in the top right corner of the page. Settings icon is three small horizontal lines that lie at the top rightmost corner of the page just below the close(cross) icon.
3. Under settings among various tabs of drop-down menus click on “Options“.
4. As you click on “Options” a separate page will appear. Toward the left of the page click on “Privacy & Security” tab.
5. After that click on “Remove individual cookies” option at the last of the page.
6. A sub-window will appear. If you want to delete individual cookies, select the cookie that you want to delete and then click on “Remove Selected”.
7. If you want to clear the whole cookies, then click “Remove All” options. This will delete the entire cookies from your Firefox from the beginning of the time.

As you just cleared all the cookies from Firefox, you can now feel the difference in the browsing speed, search results, Ads you see, recommendations for videos on YouTube, etc. Besides all these, you are safe from the chance of losing your personal information to spammers.

Clear cookies from Internet Explorer

1. Open internet explorer on your device.
2. On the top, to the right click on tool option. In the newer version of Internet Explorer Tool option is a gear icon. Whereas in the older version, there are Tools written in the top right corner of the page.
3. A Drop-down list will appear. From among the menu click on “Options“.
   
4. An internet options page will pop-up. In the page under Browsing-history tab click on “Delete…” option.
   
5. Make sure that you will select cookies and website data. If you want to erase other stuff like Download History, History and so on select them as well.
6. Once you are done selecting the items to be deleted click on “Delete” and all the cookies from your internet explorer will be deleted.
   

Since all the cookies are cleared, you can now feel the difference in the browsing speed, search results, Ads you see, recommendations for videos on YouTube, etc. Besides all these, you are safe from the chance of losing your personal information to spammers.

Delete cookies from Edge browser

1. Open Edge browser on any device you prefer.
2. Click on “More” option. Three dots (…) at the top right corner of the page just below the page close icon. And then click on the settings from among the drop down options.
   3. Click on Choose what to clear option.
   4. You will now see the list of items you might want to delete. Since we are discussing clearing cookies, make sure that you will select Cookies and saved website data option.
   5. Once you completed choosing what you want to delete and confirmed that Cookies and saved website data has been selected click on Clear.

Now you will feel the difference in your browsing experience in Microsoft Edge concerning speed and recommendations.

Clear Cookies from Opera Browser

Opera Browser is getting popular these days. Especially its VPN feature has impressed me personally. To clear cookies from Opera Browser follow the steps:

1. Open Opera browser in any of the device (Laptop/Desktop) as you prefer.
2. Click on the menu option. Menu option lies in the top left corner of the page.
3. As you click on the Menu option, a drop-down list will appear. From among the list click on Settings option that lies towards the end of the list. You can also reach the settings page using the keyboard shortcut “Alt+P”.
4. In the settings page click on the Privacy&security tab from among the options that lie in the left panel of the page.
5. Now click on Clear Browsing data tab.
6. After that, you will able to see a sub-window. In the sub-window make sure that Cookies and other site data has been marked. At the same time, you can also select the time from when you want to clear cookies from  Opera. If you’re going to clear entire cookies, then choose From the beginning of the time.

This will clear cookies and other site data from your Opera Browser.

There is also a shortcut way to clear cookies from Opera Browser.

Shortcut key to clear cookies from Opera Browser

1. Open Opera Browser in any of your device.
2. You will see an Easy setup circle towards the right of the page.
3. A navigation panel will slide out once you click on Easy setup circle.
4. In the panel scroll down to find Clear Cookies option.
5. As you click, a sub-window will appear. In the sub-window make sure that you clear cookies and site data has been marked and don’t forget to select the time from when you want to clear cookies. After that click on Clear Browsing Data.

Clear Cookies in Safari browser

1. Open the Safari browser on your Macbook.
2. Click on Safari menu and then click “preference” from the drop-down list.
3. Among various tabs click on Security tab.
4. Now click on “show cookies”.
5. If you want to delete individual cookies select the cookies, you want to delete and click on remove.
   You can click remove all to delete entire cookies.
6. Confirmation sub-window will appear. Click on delete at the bottom of the sub-window.
   Click done to close the window.