I chose to erase cookies after exiting firefox. This delete ALL cookies. How to allow certain cookies to stay?

Question

How to allow cookies of certain websites such as Yahoo, to stay in my computer? I'm using firefox 1.5.0.3. Since I always enter websites that involve exchange of private datas such as credit card number and bank account password, I am advised to delete all cookies after closing my browser. But I wish certain safe cookies to stay in my computer. How can I do that?

Answer 1

You would probably like C-Cleaner. It cleans all the cookies and temp files and there is an option for it to run at every startup if you would like:



http://www.ccleaner.com



Turning off cookies altogether won't work on many websites so this is a good way to keep it clean.

Answer 2

You can't allow certain cookies to stay and others to be deleted. Firefox either deletes them all or saves them all.



What you can control is which sites are allowed to put cookies on your computer in the first place.



You do this in Firefox from the "Options" in the Tools menu.



Click on "Privacy" and then "Cookies".

Select "Allow sites to set cookies"

Select "for the originating site only"

Select "unless I have removed cookies set by the site"

Select "Keep cookies until they expire"



Then click "View Cookies" and delete all the cookies from sites you don't recognize. Don't delete the cookies from yahoo.com or any other sites you want to use. Once you remove the site, it won't be allowed to set cookies in the future.



If you're worried about particular sites (citibank, paypal, etc.) you can try disabling cookies for that site, but they may not work without cookies. If that's the case, use the "Exceptions" button on that options page and add that site back as "allowed".



Remember, with Firefox 1.5 You can always clear your personal data at any time by "Clear Private Data" under the Tools menu.

Answer 3

go to a folder in the default drive called temporary internet files.here you can delete the cookies you want.