[nfbcs] Slightly OT Where Does Firefox Store Cookies

[Joseph C. Lininger]

Nicole,
Sure, no problem.

1. Go into Firefox, select Tools, then Options.
2. Find the privacy category in the list view.
3. There is a combo box for history settings. Choose "Use Custom 
Settings for History". You'll want to expand with Alt+Down Arrow and 
then arrow to the one you want, because if you just press arrow keys it 
will change options as you hit each item and you may not want them changed.
4. Obviously, make sure that the "Accept cookies from sites" box is 
checked. You'll probably also want to accept third party cookies, even 
though they're a bit of a violation, because if you don't you'll find 
sites strangely don't work some times and you won't get a good 
explanation as to why. It's not so bad since you're going to clear them 
when the browser closes anyway.
5. Tab until you find a combo box labeled "keep until". Select "I close 
Firefox" from the available choices. You could also choose to have it 
ask you for every cookie, but I don't like it doing that because you'll 
end up being bombarded with requests to store cookies. Sites will 
sometimes ask 3 or 4 or sometimes even more times. Better, in my opinion 
anyway, to just go ahead and accept them and then delete them as soon as 
you're done with your session.

Hope this helps.
Joe