Deleting cookies from your browser is not such big task,but it could be a daunting one for new internet users.

I love to recall the days when we were kids and were given cookies everyday after the school,and i would wait the whole day just for the school to get over,so that i could have those cookies.

We will look discuss here on how to delete cookies from some of the major internet browsers.But prior to we start deleting those not so tasty browser cookies lets discuss some basics about what’s and how’s of the cookies.

Cookies are generally are neither beneficial nor are they harmful to your computer.But under certain conditions they could put your personal information under risk of theft to personal information such as your login details by hackers.

So what are browser cookies?
They are nothing,but only some chunk text that’s stored in your pc whenever you visit a site and this is basically done to identify you the next time you visit that website.It also helps to make the process of logging into your frequently visited sites.You must have noticed that many a times when you open a page of lets say amazon it says your name and then “hi” or “hello”,its just because the cookie stored in your computer was recognized by the amazon server.

How can stored cookies be harmful to  you?
Well as we all know their are lot of hackers out their(hope you’re not one-or else you would have,not been reading this)and they try to get into peoples computers and get access to their personal information-this is done by having a look at your cookies.

Now lets get back to the main discussion on how to delete your browser cookies?

We will go through some of the major internet browsers step by step so get ready:-

How to delete cookies from Internet explorer,Avant and Safari?

1-Open your internet explorer if you’re using firefox right now-then scroll down to the bottom of this article.

How to delete cookies/history from Internet explorer/avant/safari

2-On the right hand side you’ll see a tab named “tools”-click on it.
3-Click on the last option “internet options”

click on delete

4-In their you’ll see many tabs.click on the first one the general,if its not by default.
5-you’ll see an option of deleting cookies along with temporary files.click on delete and you’re done.Their are some options-you can get rid of the cookies alone and/or temporary files and/or your passwords.The choice is yours.

6-You can also choose which cookies you want to delete and which ones to keep-to do so-click on “settings”-a new window will come up and you can view the cookies individually and delete them.

7-That done you may want to prevent cookies from being stored into your computer-to do so follow the arrow  head:-

Open IE>>>tools>>>internet options>>>privacy tab
Now you’ll get to see the range of security levels you can apply when your browser deals with cookies.Its advisable to keep it to mid-high as this can handle most of the cookies and still allowing your computer run efficiently.

Now lets have a look at how you can delete cookies/history from Mozilla firefox:-its almost the same.

Just Follow the arrows-
tools>>>>clear recent history>>>>>select what you want to delete.

Delting cookies from firefox

To select your privacy settings follow the do as follows:-

open tools>>>>options>>>>open privacy tab>>>>select how and when you want your cookies to deleted and when not.

Prevent cookies from being stored in your pc

In the end the bonus-Open your run command and type %temp% in it ,hit enter and you’ll see all your temporary files.Select the files you want to delete and that’s it.