Clearing Browser Cookies and Cache
Clearing your browser's cookies and cache will often resolve many commonly experienced browser issues.
LAITS recommends using Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Edge as your browser.
Supported Browsers
Chrome
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- At the top right, click More Delete browsing data.
- Choose a time range, like Last hour or All time.
- Select the types of information you want to remove.
- Click Delete data.
Mozilla Firefox
- In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click and then select or , depending on your OS version.
- Select the panel and go to the Cookies and Site Data section.
- Click the button. The Clear Data dialog will appear.
- Cookies and Site Data (to remove login status and site preferences) and Cached Web Content (to remove stored images, scripts and other cached content) should both be check marked.
- Click .
Microsoft Edge
- Select Settings and more > Settings > Privacy, search, and services .
Under Clear browsing data > Clear browsing data now, select Choose what to clear.
Under Time range, choose a time range from the drop-down menu.
Choose the types of browsing data you want to clear (see the table below for descriptions).
For example, you may want to remove browsing history and cookies but keep passwords and form fill data.Select Clear now.
Unsupported Browsers
Some UT sites and services don't work as well when using these browsers. As such, they are not recommended by LAITS.
Safari
- Click "Safari" in the upper left hand corner of your screen
- Click "Preferences"
- Select "Privacy"
- Click "Remove All Website Data"
- Click "Remove Now"
- Restart your browser
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