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Clearing the cookies in your browser will fix most of these problems. • Clear your browser's cookies in Edge • Clear your browser's cookies in Safari • Clear your browser's cookies in Firefox • Clear your browser's cookies in Chrome. Internet Explorer may still work with some AOL services, but is no longer supported by Microsoft.
With cookies turned on, the next time you return to a website, it will remember things like your login info, your site preferences, or even items you placed in a virtual shopping cart! • Enable cookies in Firefox • Enable cookies in Chrome. By default, cookies are automatically enabled in Safari and Edge.
Its purpose is to promote a balanced approach to Internet privacy between consumers and content providers by blocking advertisements and tracking cookies that do not respect the Do Not Track setting in a user's web browser. [4] A second purpose, served by free distribution, has been to encourage membership in and donation to the EFF. [5]
To prevent the browser from remembering your username and suggesting it to the next user of the computer, remember to delete the Wikipedia cookies in your browser's privacy settings. Especially if you are using a public computer, you may want to delete all of the browser's recent history ( Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + Del in Firefox ).
HTTP cookies share their name with a popular baked treat.. The term cookie was coined by web-browser programmer Lou Montulli.It was derived from the term magic cookie, which is a packet of data a program receives and sends back unchanged, used by Unix programmers.
A web browser's cache stores temporary instances of web pages, allowing them to load faster next time you visit. Clearing your browser's cache is recommended if you're experiencing things like pages freezing, not loading, or being unresponsive.
Make sure the box for "Cached Web Content" is checked and click "Clear", (be sure the "Cookies and Site Data" box is unchecked if you do not want to clear this data as well). In versions of Firefox that display a single, orange "Firefox" button: click the "Firefox" button and click "Options".
Internet Explorer was the first major browser to support extensions, with the release of version 4 in 1997. [1] Firefox has supported extensions since its launch in 2004. Opera and Chrome began supporting extensions in 2009, [2] and Safari did so the following year. Microsoft Edge added extension support in 2016. [3]