How to empty my cache & cookies

Updated my operating system to Safari 6.0 and can not figure out how to delete my cookies & cache. Option is no longer under preferences tab. Does anyone know?

For some reason Apple buried it in Preferences.
Safari menu > Preferences > Privacy.
To clear Safari's cache you have to enable the Develop menu. That choice is in the Advanced pane. Show the Develop menu, then a Develop menu will appear with the option "Empty Caches".

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How can i clear save passwords, i have found clear history options and it was quite helpful, but there was no option to clear save passwords, can you help.
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Tressina

Fron your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab.
Click: Remove All Website Data
Now empty the cache.
Back to the menu bar, go to Safari > Preferences then select the Advanced tab.
Select: Show Develop menu in menu bar
Now click Develop from the menu bar. From the drop down menu click Empty Caches.
That will delete temporary internet files as well.

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Usually I clear the Safari Cache once a week and clean up cookies as well.
I noticed after upgrading to Mountain Lion, the Empty Cache is no longer shown on the Safari drop down.
How is this done now?
Thanks,
Sonja

On Mountain Lion, the option to empty Safari cache is hidden, but you can continue using it. Follow these steps:
1. Open Safari, go to Safari menu > Preferences > Advanced, and tick "Show Develop menu on menu bar"-
2. Close Preferences window, and go to Develop menu > Empty caches

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I will try dumping the .plist and do a reboot and see what happens... I will be back.
Thanks again for helping me Meg, I am terrified of losing my library (35 gig) like I have in the past.
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For about the past week, Facebook has been taking forever to load (or just not) on my mac (OSX 10.5.8; Safari 5.0.6). Other sites are fine. I routinely empty the cache, clear history, cookies, etc. each time I shut down. Suggestions?

For about the past week, Facebook has been taking forever to load (or just doesn't) on my mac (OSX 10.5.8; Safari 5.0.6). Other sites are fine. I routinely empty the cache, clear history, cookies, etc. each time I shut down. Suggestions?

I don't use Facebook, but I can say that clearing the cache every time you shut down is excessive - unless you're sure the cache is corrupt you should leave it alone. It exists to speed up your browsing experience by loading frequently requested items from your drive rather than downloading them fresh from the internet each time. So, I would say stop clearing your cache and see what happens.
As for clearing cookies: I'm not sure what method you currently use, but I would recommend you download and install CCleaner. It's free, and allows you to build up a list of cookies that you want to clear and those you want to keep, before deleting them.
Both of these may help speed things up by reducing the amount of work Safari has to perform whilst browsing. Regardless, I'd say that, unless there's a reason you've not mentioned for performing the "purging" that you do, making these two changes should see improvements in general web browsing if not specifically when loading Facebook.

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2. Quit Safari if open.
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Jonathan,
Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Here's how to empty your Java caches --
Go to your Utilities folder in the main Applications folder.
Double Click on Java 1.3.1 Plugin Settings.
Select the Cache Tab.
Then click on Clear Jar Cache.
That's it.
Now do the same for Java 1.4.2 Plugin Settings.
If I were you, I would also clear the History from the main Safari menu,
Empty Cache from "Safari" (Top left of your Safari Menu)
and check the size of your Icons folder in
Home (Your Name)>Library> Safari folder.
If it's over 1 MB, put it in the trash and empty the trash.
A new one will be regenerated when you restart Safari.
Let us know how you're doing after this, OK?

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Go to Safari > Preferences > Advanced and check Show Develop menu in menu bar. Then it's in the Develop menu.

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am being told that i need to empty firefox cache.
i went to the preferences and selected advance and clicked on the empty now pane .has this all i have to do or is there more.
i am useing a apple imac with 10.6.5 o/s

No, clicking the "Clear Now" button is enough to clear the cache. You get no confirmation. You can verify the current cache usage via the location bar on the about:cache page.

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I would like to be able to "add an exception" to the cache-clearing or at the very least, be able to copy the relevant files for that page and paste them back before opening Firefox again.
Any ideas?

That is not possible.<br />
You can only clear the entire cache.
If you do not want specific content to get cached or written to disk then you need to switch on Private Browsing.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Private+Browsing
* https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1/PrivateBrowsing/SecurityReview#Configuration
For cookies you must not use clear history, but let all cookies expire when you close Firefox and make an allow exception for cookies from domains that you want to keep.

Info really needed on caches & cookies - please!

Whenever I read any article about 'How To clean Up your Mac' /'Make It Run Faster' etc it always mentions deleting caches & cookies. I have tons of each - how on earth do I know which ones it's safe to delete & which ones will kill my Mac if not there? I'm sure not, but is there any way to tell the difference? Ditto with histories....
Any help gratefully accepted - just moved from PC to Mac so I'm a bit dazed, to say the least.
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Personally, I make it a point to delete both cookies and caches daily; I usually leave any cookies placed by businesses I deal with (credit card companies, banks, Apple , my ISP, etc) because at least one business will have me go through hoops if they don't find their cookie when I log in. It takes a bit longer when you delete some instead of all, but I've gotten used to it.
If you use Firefox, click on Preferences, click on Privacy, and then click on "show cookies" and then click on "remove" highlighted cookies or "remove all". Cache is found under Preferences - Advanced - "clear now". You can also occasionally click on Tools (top menu) and click on "clear private data", that clears out everything (cache, history) except cookies. You can also set up Firefox (Preferences - Privacy - "Private Data") to delete whatever you specify under "Settings" every time when you quit Firefox.
If you use Safari, go to Preferences, click on Security, click on "show cookies". Same procedure (remove one or all). As for cache, click on Safari and click on "empty cache". You can also click on "Reset Safari" and specify what should be deleted.
Hope this helps.

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Hi ,
I'm using Safari 5.1.10 and system 10.6.8. I've gotten all the security downloads available, but I seem to having issues with unauthorized cookies appearing. These seem to appear even though I've not visited their websites, and have Safari set to accept cookies from only sites I've visited.
After going to Preferences:Privacy: remove all website data: then remove all cookies,
If I just wait a few minutes, I get 72 website cookies restored to my computer, without doing anything. These include cookies from google, alibaba, 2mdn.net, facebook, microsoft, oracle and many more. Some of these declare they are using local storage, others the catch, while others just declare themselves as cookies.
These appear in spite of the fact that I have the preferences set to block cookies from third party advertizers, set Extensions to OFF, but have Javascript enabled, and allow Java, but deny all other plug-ins.
If I unclick the allow Java button in Preferences:security, then 11 of these cookies sneek back in, but the others seem to be blocked. Those that come back include Alibaba, apple, google-analytics, "local documents on my computer", machine-seeker, wikipedia, and a few others.
If I disable JavaScript in Preferences:Security, now I get only cookies from sites I've visited, as I'm supposed to, according to the settings in my Safari preferences.
So it seems that some unscrupulous information collectors are collecting data even when the Safari settings should prohibit it. Unfortunately, some of the sites I visit ( Like Apple support communities) require that Javascript be enabled, so I don't know how to stop this.
The problem is that I've found these unwarrented cookies appear to slow down my internet connection speeds by ~ 95% ( Try removing them and disabling Javascript to see what happens) in addition to it being an invasion of my privacy. In addition, it really bothers me that some of these sites are storing local documents on my computer without permission.
As I've said, I've already installed ALL the pertinent security updates. Does anybody have any idea how to stop this from happening? I presume this is also happening on my iphone and ipad as well, but haven't checked.
I see that Safari was sued by Apple in 2012 for doing just this same thing, but they appear to be up to their old tricks, as well as many other companies.
Thanks

Hi,
I've investigated this phenomena of UNauthorized Cookies a bit more in the past few days and found their cause and uses goes very deep down the internet rabbit hole. While most browsers allow the user to delete cookies, or to block cookies from third parties, third parties may place cookies or "cookie equivalents" on your computer through a large variety of back doors. The most pernicious type of such cookie is euphemistically called a "Zombie Cookie" or a "supercookie".
These may reside in a number of places either in your own computer or remotely on the web. Deleting zombie cookies or supercookies is generally ineffective, because they are reinstalled in your browser, or worse, just exchange information with your browser withouth leaving a trail of cookie crumbs, the next time you get online. Some of these zombie cookies are not browser specific, so they can be accessed through all browsers on your computer.
The reason that you may never have heard of supercookies, and the reason they are so hard to find and get rid of, is that their deployment is deliberately sneaky and designed to evade detection and deletion. This means that most people who think they have cleared their computers of tracking objects have likely not. The European Union has recently taken action to make illegal the emplacement of "non-essential" cookies on your computer, but the United States, being less concerned about your personal privacy, and more concerned about making it easy for companies (and the government) to eavesdrop, has not.
The following is a list ( probably incomplete) where zombie cookies may be hiding on your computer:
Standard HTTP cookies
Storing cookies in and reading out web history
Storing cookies in HTTP ETags
Internet Explorer userData storage (starting IE9, userData is no longer supported)
HTML5 Session Storage
HTML5 Local Storage
HTML5 Global Storage
HTML5 Database Storage via SQLite
Storing cookies in RGB values of auto-generated, force-cached PNGs using HTML5 Canvas tag to read pixels (cookies) back out
Local Shared Objects
Silverlight Isolated Storage
Cookie syncing scripts that function as a cache cookie and respawn the MUID cookie[4]
If a user is not able to remove the cookie from every one of these data stores then the cookie will be recreated to all of these stores on the next visit to the site that uses that particular cookie, or in some cases, just the next visit to the internet, even though you may have barred 3rd party cookies from being emplaced in your browser. Every company has their own implementation of zombie cookies and most are kept proprietary, although an open-source implementation of zombie cookies, called Evercookie,[5] is available and commonly used.
One such common type of supercookie is called Local shared objects (LSOs), or more commonly Flash cookies (due to their similarities with HTTP cookies), are pieces of data that websites which use Adobe Flash may store on a user's computer. Local shared objects are used by all versions of Adobe Flash Player and version 6 and above of Macromedia's now-obsolete Flash Player.[1]
It is possible to see who is using Flash cookies on your computer, (and remove them) by going to the adobe website storage settings panel : (http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_man ager07.html). This takes you to a settings manager figure. This Settings Manager figure that you see on this page is not an image; it is the actual Settings Manager for your computer. Click the tabs to see different panels, and click the options in the panels to change your Adobe Flash Player settings.
So far, I have not been able to find a method of removing or inhibiting zombie cookies that use HTML5 local or global storage locations. Some browsers may provide such power, but Apple Safari apparently does not.
For more information on supercookies see:
https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/8177/super-cookies-flash-cookies/
There are some ways to reduce your load of unwanted cookies and local storage type cookies using extensions such as AdBlock or Disconnect, But I've tried some of these and it doesn't seem to stop very many of them, even though the Disconnect extension is said to block over 2000 of these types of cookies.
For those who are trying to ride under the radar by using some of these extensions or software blockers, be aware that use of these may actually make you more visible because of browser fingerprinting. Whenever you visit a website your browser sends data to the server hosting that site. This data includes basic information, including the browser name, operating system, and exact version number of the browser. This information is known as passive browser fingerprint because it happens automatically. However websites when blocked, can also easily install other types of scripts that ask for additional information, such as a list of all installed fonts and plugins, supported data types (so-called MIME types), screen resolution, system colors and much more. Because this information has to be solicited from your browser, it is known as active fingerprinting. Taken altogether, the various fingerprint attributes can be almost instantly (it takes just a few milliseconds to run algorithms that compare millions of fingerprints) combined to create a unique fingerprint that can be used to very accurately identify an individual user, no matter if cookies have been deleted or IP address changed between website visits.
For an article on browser fingerprinting, See : https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/8159/browsers-fingerprint-reduce/
The bottom line is that if you use the internet, your browser history is being tracked by a myriad of companies and government agents, and it is likely not possible to stop this. For those who work in science, industry or government and are working on sensitive topics or novel product development that another company or government may find interesting, there appears to be many ways to recreate what you are working on by studying your browser history, or installing worms to view exactly what you are writing or reading. It came as somewhat of a shock to me to see just how pervasive internet spying has become, and it's not just malicious or destrustive agents who are doing so. Google didn't become a $350 billion company by simply bringing nice toys to us to play with. The real value of the internet comes from the trade and sale of secretly obtained personal information from you and I and everyone else, and its sale to all who will pay for it.

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