Firefox gives you the ability to manage (i.e., accept or reject) cookies from websites.

Go to the top of your browser and click Tools > Options:

 

 

The “Options” window will open.

Make sure you are in the “Privacy” section.

In the middle of the window, you’ll notice an area specifically designated for cookie management:

 

Accepting Cookies

If you’d like to accept all cookies, just check the box labeled “Accept cookies from sites.”

Directly underneath the checkbox, you can choose how long you’d like to keep the cookies. Your options are:

• Keep until they expire
• Keep until I close Firefox
• Ask me every time

You can take a look at all of the cookies that have been accepted by clicking on the “Show Cookies” button:

 

 

From the above window, you can search for, as well as remove, any cookies.

Blocking Cookies

Let’s say you’d like to block cookies from every website. Just uncheck the box labeled “Accept cookies from sites.”

Please keep in mind that if you block all cookies, you will not be able to login to any website…unless you create an “Exception.”

For example, let’s say you have a CyberNet News account. If all cookies are blocked, you will not be able to login to CyberNet. Cookies store your username and password information.

You need to create “Exceptions” for sites that you wish to allow:

Exceptions

Click on the “Exceptions” button:

 

 

Here you can:

• Allow any site (if you are blocking all cookies), or
• Block any site (if you are allowing all cookies)