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Privacy Options

The Privacy panel contains options related to your privacy. As you
browse the web, information on where you have been, what pages you
have visited, etc are stored here. You can click the Clear button
on each section to clear that information. Alternatively you can
clear all information stored while browsing by clicking Clear
All. A confirmation dialog will be shown before clearing the
information.
To display section-specific options, expand the view by clicking
on the small + buttons. In the image above, the History and Cache
sections are expanded.
History
Here you can specify for how many days you want the browser to remember
what pages you have visited. The default is 9 days.
Saved Form Information
Save information that you have entered in web page forms and the
Search Bar.
When you enter information in web forms,
Firefox will remember what you have typed and automatically make
suggestions when you enter information again. To stop this behavior,
simply uncheck this option.
Saved Passwords
Enabling this option will make Firefox capable of securely storing
passwords you enter in web forms, to make it easier to log on to
Internet sites.
You can manage the saved passwords and delete individual passwords
by clicking View Saved Passwords. You can remove saved password,
by marking the site and then click Remove. By clicking Remove
All, all saved password will be removed. You can also in the
same way, manage sites that the Password Manager have been told
to never save the the login information.
To stop saving passwords all together, uncheck
this option.
Download Manager History
The Download Sidebar (accessible from the View menu or by pressing
Ctrl+E) stores shortcuts to your recent downloads. The Manager History
can be cleared, by pressing the Clear button.
Cookies
A cookie is a file created by a web site that stores information
on your computer, such as your preferences when visiting that site.
To display the Cookie Manager click View Cookies.
Enable cookies
By default, cookies are enabled. Uncheck this option to disable
the use of cookies. Note that some sites may not work properly when
this feature is disabled.
- for the originating Web site only : Selecting this option
will restrict cookie usage to the originating Web site only, meaning
that no foreign cookies will be stored. To learn more about this,
read about managing cookies.
- for the current session only : If this option is selected,
the cookie information will be removed when you restart the browser.
Web sites requiring the use of cookies will still work, but if
you restart the browser, the Web site will think that you logged
into the site for the first time again.
- but ask before accepting : When this option is enabled,
a confirmation dialog will be displayed each time a site tries
to save a cookie on your computer.
Cache
Pages you view are normally stored in a special cache folder for
quicker viewing the next time you visit the same page. Here you
are able to specify the amount of disk space the cache can use.
By default Firefox is set to have up to 50.000 KB of disk space
for the cache.
In addition to specifying the amount of disk space, you can also
specify the cache folder and the memory usage.
An application that is capable of cleaning up these privacy files,
and also for NetPositive, is FilWip.
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