How to Clear Browsing Data in Chrome

To delete cookies in Google Chrome: To clear the cookies from the Chrome mobile browser, tap the menu button (the icon with three stacked dots), and choose Settings. Go to Privacy and security > Clear browsing data, and then open the Advanced tab. Tap each area you want to erase, for example, Cookies and site data, or Saved passwords. Delete the selection with the Clear data button.

How to Clear Browsing Data in Firefox

To delete cookies in the Mozilla Firefox browser: To delete cookies on the mobile Firefox browser, tap the menu button and go to Settings > Delete browsing data. Choose Cookies (and anything else you want to delete, such as the browsing history or cache), then tap Delete browsing data.

How to Clear Browsing Data in Microsoft Edge

Here’s how to delete cookies and browsing history in Microsoft Edge. To delete cookies in the mobile Edge app, tap the menu button at the bottom, go to Settings > Privacy and security > Clear browsing data, and choose the items to remove. Then, tap Clear data.

How to Delete Browsing History in Internet Explorer

To delete cookies in Internet Explorer:

To delete cookies in the Apple Safari web browser: To delete cookies on the mobile Safari browser, open the Settings app for your device (not the browser). Scroll down and tap the Safari link, then scroll down and tap Clear History and Website Data. Confirm with Clear.

How to Clear Browsing Data in Opera

To delete cookies in Opera: To delete cookies from the mobile Opera browser, tap the profile button at the bottom, and then choose the settings/gear icon. Scroll to the bottom and tap Clear data, and then choose Cookies and site data, as well as whatever else you want to delete. Select CLEAR DATA.

Why Should I Delete Cookies?

Internet cookies are small files stored on a computer hard drive by a web browser that contains information about your visit to a particular website. This information may include your login status, personalization, and advertising preferences. If you don’t want this information stored on your computer, delete the cookies. Most of the time, cookies make browsing more enjoyable by keeping you logged in to a site you visit frequently or remembering the questions you answered at your favorite polling site. Sometimes, however, a cookie may remember something you’d rather it didn’t, or become corrupt, resulting in a browsing experience that’s less than enjoyable. This is when deleting cookies may be a good idea. You might also want to delete cookies if you’re experiencing issues such as 500 Internal Server or 502 Bad Gateway errors (among others), which are sometimes indications that one or more cookies for a particular site are corrupted and should be removed.

More About Deleting Cookies in Web Browsers

Most browsers also find and delete cookies from individual websites. Since few issues require that you delete all the cookies stored by the browser, locating and removing specific cookies allows you to retain customizations and stay logged in to your favorite, non-offending websites.