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Setting Up Cookie Rules
By default Firefox 1.5 accepts all cookies, including cookies which would allow a site to recognise you effectively forever. If this doesn't suit you, you can tell Firefox 1.5 to delete all cookies when you close Firefox 1.5:

1. Select Tools >> Options.
2. Click the Privacy panel, and then click on the Cookies tab.
3. Select the desired Firefox 1.5 option preference from the Keep Cookies drop-down selection box.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Options Privacy Cookies

If you want to grant sites you trust the ability to store cookies permanently (e.g., to allow you to log in automatically to a site), click Exceptions, enter the site address, and click Allow.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Exceptions Cookies

All the Settings
These are the options preferences that affect how cookies are managed by Firefox 1.5:

Allow sites to set cookies
If you don't want any sites to store cookies on your computer, deselect this option preference. NOTE: Some sites may not work properly when cookies are disabled. If you want to grant certain sites the ability to store cookies, open the Cookies Exceptions Window by clicking Exceptions, enter the site address, and click Allow or Allow for Session.

For the originating web site only
If Firefox 1.5 stores a site's cookie, it will return the cookie only to that particular site. Firefox 1.5 will not provide one site with cookies set by another. Since a web site can only receive its own cookies, it can learn about your activities while you are at that site but not your activities in general while surfing the Web.

However, sometimes a web site displays content from another site. That content can be anything from an image to text or an advertisement. The other web site also has the ability to store a cookie in Firefox 1.5, even though you haven't visited the site directly.

Cookies that are stored by a site other than the one you are visiting are called third-party cookies or foreign cookies. Web sites sometimes use third-party cookies with transparent GIFs, which are special images that help sites count users, track email responses, learn more about how visitors use the site, or customise your browsing experience. (Transparent GIFs are also known as web beacons or web bugs.) When this option preference is selected, it blocks these foreign cookies from being stored.

Unless I have removed Cookies set by the site
If you remove Cookies in the View Cookies dialogue while this option preference is selected, Firefox 1.5 won't allow the respective sites to store cookies again.

Keep Cookies:

• until they expire: If this option preference is selected, each cookie will be removed when it reaches its expiration date.
• until I close Firefox 1.5: If this option preference is selected, cookies will be removed when you restart Firefox 1.5. Web sites requiring the use of cookies will still work, but if you restart Firefox 1.5, the web site will think that you logged into the site for the first time again.
• ask me every time: Display an alert every time a web site tries to store a cookie to ask you if you want that cookie stored.

Accepting and Blocking Cookies
If you've chosen ask me every time from the Keep Cookies combo box, you'll see a dialogue whenever a site tries to store a cookie on your computer providing the following options:

Allow
To allow this particular cookie, just click Allow. Use this if you trust the site.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Confirm Setting Cookie

Allow for Session
If you want to allow this cookie for now, but have it deleted when you exit Firefox 1.5, click Allow for Session. Use this if the site doesn't work without cookies, but you don't want to have a permanent cookie stored for it.

If you don't want this cookie to be stored, click Deny. Use this if you don't trust the site or suspect that it may compromise your privacy.

Use my choice for all cookies from this site.Select this option preference before clicking any of the buttons if you want Firefox 1.5 to remember your decision and not ask again. The site will be added to the Cookie Exceptions Window, where you can revert your choice should you wish to do so later.

The Cookies Exceptions Window
Access this window by clicking the Exceptions button in cookies options preferences. Here you can make exceptions from your general cookies options preferences for specific sites. Using exceptions, you can allow all cookies, reject all cookies, or allow all cookies but have them deleted when you exit Firefox 1.5, regardless of your other cookie settings.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser Exceptions Cookies Allow

To add a site to this list, simply type the site's domain name in the field labeled Address of web site i.e. www.linxdata.net. Then click Block to reject cookies from the site, click Allow to allow cookies from the site, or click Allow for Session to allow cookies from the site but have them deleted when you exit Firefox 1.5.

To remove a site from this list, select it and click Remove Site. To clear the list completely, click Remove All Sites. This will clear the exceptions list so your general cookies options preferences apply.

The View Cookies Window
Use the View Cookies window to view and remove cookies. To access it, click the View Cookies button in cookies options preferences.

Firefox 1.5 Web Browser View Cookies Window

This window lists all cookies currently stored on your computer, grouped by site. You can expand the sites and select a cookie to display more information about it. You can also search for a site or a cookie name by typing in the search bar.

To remove a cookie from the list, select it and click Remove Cookie. To remove a site's cookies, select the site and click Remove Cookie(s). To remove all cookies, click Remove All Cookies. (This is the same as clicking the Clear Cookies Now button from the Cookies tab of the Privacy panel of the Tools >> Options window.)

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