If you haven’t yet enabled cookies on your Firefox browser, you must be finding websites prompting you to allow or enable cookies on your computer. On the other hand, you may want to disable cookies on Firefox in order to avoid the risk from unsafe websites on the internet. We will guide you in this post both to enable and disable cookies on Firefox.
Enable Cookies On Firefox
Follow the steps below to enable cookies for all websites on Firefox browser.
1. Click on the Open Menu button. (3 bar icon located to the top right of your screen)
2. You will be presented with a drop-down menu, click on the Options tab.
3. From the new pop up window find the Privacy section and select the Firefox will Remember history option. Letting Firefox remember history means it will store cookies (See image below)
A window will pop up prompting you to restart Firefox in order to apply the changes.
4. Click on OK to enable this setting on your computer.
Disable Cookies on Firefox
The following steps below to disable cookies for all sites on Firefox browser.
1. Click on the Open Menu button (3 bar icon located to the top right of your screen)
2. Click on the Options tab from the drop-down menu.
3. On the next screen click on the Privacy section and select the Firefox will Never remember history option. Making Firefox not remember history will disable cookies on your computer.
Note: Disabling cookies might interfere with your browsing experience on many websites that make use of cookies.
Enable Cookies for Trusted Sites On Firefox
As mentioned above, blocking cookies on Firefox for all website will interfere with your browsing experience on your trusted and favorite websites. Hence, you may want to go with the option of allowing cookies for only the sites that you trust on Firefox.
Follow the steps below to Enable Cookies for certain trusted websites on your computer while blocking cookies for all other websites.
1. Click on the 3 bar Open Menu button (top right of your screen)
2. From the drop-down click on the Options button.
3. Click on the Privacy tab.
4. On the next screen select Firefox will Use custom settings for history
5. Deselect Accept cookies from sites option and click on the Exceptions tab (See image above).
6. Now on the new pop up window enter the web address that you trust and want to enable cookies and click on the Allow button.
After entering all your trusted sites click on the Save Changes button to save the cookie settings for your trusted websites.
Disable Cookies for Certain Sites On Firefox
Follow the steps below to block only certain websites from setting cookies on your computer. This option is best suited when you are very sure about the websites that you want to disable cookies for while allowing all other websites to set cookies on your computer.
1. Click on the Open Menu button (3 bar icon located to the top right of your screen)
2. Click on the Options tab from the drop-down menu.
3. On the next screen click on the Privacy section and select the Firefox will Use custom settings for history option.
4. Select Accept cookies from sites option and click on the Exceptions tab
5. Now on the new pop up window enter the web address that you do not trust and want to disable cookies and click on the Block button (See image below)
Enter all the sites that you do not trust and then click on the Save Changes to save your cookie options for this website.