How to Clear Cookies in Safari Firefox Chrome and Opera on Mac

Cookies are created when you use your browser to visit a website which keeps your registered login, theme selection, preferences, and other customization functions. Websites often store cookies on your hard disk thus to help websites identify you when you resume, and the sites can show information that might be of interest to you.

If you find that personal info automatically completed on sites isn't correct, deleting cookies can help. Moreover, periodically cleaning browser data can also protect your privacy. Here in this iMobie guide, we are going to show you how to clear cookies on Mac in Safari, Firefox, Chrome and Opera quickly.

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How to Clear Cookies on Mac in One-click with MacClean

MacClean is a nice and powerful Mac cleaning and optimizing tool works on all Macs. It allows you to remove all cookies of multiple Web browsers all in one click, including Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. Besides cookies, it also clears other Internet junks like browsing history, caches, download history, saved passwords, sessions, etc. MacClean also remove system junks, user junks, app leftovers, and development junks from Mac to free up space. Also, it secures your Mac by clearing malicious cookies and malware.

Step 1. Go to download and install MacClean on your Mac, no matter MacBook, iMac or Mac mini. And run it to remove cookies on your Mac.

Step 2. On the left side, select “Internet Junk” and click “Scan” to get cookies, browsing history, download history and so on of Safari, Chrome, FireFox and Opera on your Mac.

Step 3. MacClean will quickly collect all cookies. Just preview all cookies by click “Review Details” on the bottom of each scanned browsing app icon. You can select only those items you don’t want. Finally, click “Clean” button to completely get rid of those cookies.

How to Clear Cookies on Mac in Safari

Step 1. Open Safari on your Mac.

Step 2. Choose Safari > Preferences > Privacy.

Step 3. Click Details > Select the websites that stores cookies you want to clear > Click "Remove" or "Remove All" > Click "Done". Or you can directly click Remove All Website Data.

How to Clear Cookies on Mac in Firefox

Step 1. Open Firefox, and in the menu bar, choose History.

Step 2. Click Clear Recent History.

Step 3. A window will pop up, check cookies, and click Clear Now.

How to Clear Cookies on Mac in Chrome

Step 1. Launch Chrome, in the menu bar, select History. Click “Show Full History.”

Step 2. Click “Clear browsing data…”

Step 3. Choose the period you want to clear your cookies.

Step 4. Check the box that says Cookies and other site and plugin data, and click on “Clear browsing data” option.

How to Clear Cookies on Mac in Opera

Step 1. Open Opera, and click History in the menu bar.

Step 2. Click Show All History.

Step 3. Click Clear Browsing Data. Choose the period you want to clear cookies.

Step 4. Select Cookies and other site data. Click Clear Browsing Data.

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The Bottom Line

MacClean is very easy to use and powerful on removing junk files on your Mac. Any question on this guide or MacClean is welcomed. At the same time, if this guide solves your problem, don't forget to share it with your friends. Free download it to give a shot now.