Delete Cookies on a Mac
Nov 10, 2009 - 20 Comments
The web browsers most commonly used in Mac OS X are Safari and Firefox, here’s how to delete cookies in both.
Delete Cookies in Safari on Mac
* Open the ‘Safari’ menu in the upper left
* Click on ‘Preferences’
* Click the ‘Security’ tab with the lock icon
* Click ‘Show Cookies’ button
* Now click “Remove All” and ‘Done’
* Your cookies have been deleted in Safari!
Delete Cookies in Firefox on Mac
* Click on the ‘Firefox’ menu
* Navigate down to ‘Preferences’ and click
* Click on ‘Privacy’
* Click ‘Show Cookies’ or ‘Remove Individual Cookies’ button, depending on Firefox version
* Click ‘Remove All Cookies’
* Now your cookies are deleted in Firefox!
great I can finally send this to my dad who is always trying to hide ‘certain’ web sites from my stepmom
Would love to learn an easy way to delete “flash cookies” – any advice?
for Flash Cookies you could download and use Flush or if you use FireFox only you could download and use BetterPrivacy.
Flash cookies for websites are in ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/FlashPlayer.
Flash cookies for AIR Applications, ~/Library/Preferences/[id] and ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/FlashPlayer/macromedia.com/Support/flashplayer/sys
In Mac OS X they are stored in the following location:
/User’s Home Folder/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects
The settings for the Flash cookies are stored in:
/User’s Home Folder/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys
In OS X Local Shared Objects, or Flash Cookies, are appended with a .sol suffix. Flush deletes the Flash cookies (.sol) and their settings.
oops that last post is about flash cookies, that’s from the flush website
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Hello, this is 2011! There is no “Show Cookies” button in Preferences/Security.
I have the same problem.
same here, no button to show cookies!?
Its not security, its privacy tab.
thanks ruby, but says i have 1968 stored websites and cookies, would I remove all?
when i went under safari and then preference then clicked on the lock symbol the show cookies button did not pop up. what next
What about “HIDDEN FILES”? I just found cookies from iqt.org on a PC, and it won’t be deleted. This is the spy group from the CIA… how to remove??????
Hi. I tried to follow your instructions of how to delete cookies in Safari, but when I clicked the security button, I did not see the “show cookies” listed in the menu. Are they be blocked already. Thanks in advance.
Tony
in the newer version, cookies are not under ‘security’ but under ‘privacy’ which is a few tabs over. you will see the cookies option there
I think this is wrong. I have OSX snow leopard and I have no “Show Cookies” button under the security tab. I had to go to the privacy tab and delete them there.
Assuming you mean for Firefox.
The above left out:
While under the tab ‘privacy’, sub-section ‘History’ you should see “Firefox will:”. In the drop down menu click on ‘Use custom settings for history’, “show cookies” shall appear.
For all you people wondering where the show cookies button is, its in the privacy tab, not the security tab. Hope this helps
I’ve looked under everything in privacy and security and see nothing that says coockies!