Enabling cookies
On the menu bar, click on the Firefox menu and select Preferences...
- Select the Privacy panel.
- Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history.
- Check mark Accept cookies from sites to enable Cookies, and uncheck it to disable them.
- If you are troubleshooting problems with cookies, make sure Accept third party cookies is also check marked. For more information, see Disable third-party cookies in Firefox to stop some types of tracking by advertisers.
- Choose how long cookies are allowed to be stored:
- Keep until: they expire: Each cookie will be removed when it reaches its expiration date, which is set by the site that sent the cookie.
- Keep until: I close Firefox: The cookies that are stored on your computer will be removed when Firefox is closed.
- Keep until: ask me every time: Displays an alert every time a website tries to send a cookie, and asks you whether or not you want to store it.
- Close the Preferences window.
Enabling cookies
Important: Changing your cookie preferences or removing cookies in Safari may change or remove them in other apps, including Dashboard.
- Choose Safari > Preferences, and then click Privacy.
- In the "Block cookies" section, specify whether Safari should accept cookies from websites, and when.
- To see an explanation of the options, click the Help button (looks like a question mark).
- If you want to see which websites store cookies on your computer, click Details.
- If you set Safari to block cookies, you may need to temporarily accept cookies to open a page. Repeat the above steps, selecting Never in the "Block cookies" section. When you're done with the page, block cookies again, and then remove the page's cookies.
Turning cookies on
To enable cookies in Chrome:
- Click the Chrome menu icon.
- Select Settings.
- Click Show advanced settings near the bottom of the page.
- Click Content settings in the "Privacy" section.
- Select Allow local data to be set to allow both first-party and third-party cookies. If you only want to accept first-party cookies, check the box next to "Block all third-party cookies without exception."