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<head>
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<title>Using Privacy Features</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="chrome://help/locale/helpFileLayout.css"
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type="text/css"/>
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<body>
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<h1 id="using_the_cookie_manager">Using the Cookie Manager</h1>
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<p>A cookie is a small amount of information on your computer that is used by
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some sites. For a brief overview, see
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<a href="privacy_help.xhtml#what_are_cookies_and_how_do_they_work">What Are
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Cookies and How Do They Work?</a></p>
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<p>Before loading a web page that uses cookies, your browser handles the
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page's cookies by doing two things:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Accepts or rejects any requests by the site to <strong>set</strong>
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(store) one or more cookies on your computer.</li>
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<li>Accepts or rejects any requests by the site to <strong>read</strong>
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cookies it previously stored on your computer. A site can't
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actually read cookies or any other data on your computer—instead,
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your browser gets the cookies and sends them back to the site.</li>
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</ul>
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<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#enabling_and_disabling_cookies">Enabling & Disabling
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Cookies</a></li>
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<li><a href="#managing_cookies_site-by-site">Managing Cookies
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Site-By-Site</a></li>
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<li><a href="#viewing_cookies">Viewing Cookies</a></li>
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<li><a href="#removing_cookies">Removing Cookies</a></li>
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<li><a href="#setting_privacy_levels">Setting Privacy Levels</a></li>
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<li><a href="#cookie_manager_settings">Cookie Manager Settings</a></li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<h2 id="enabling_and_disabling_cookies">Enabling & Disabling Cookies</h2>
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<p>You can specify how cookies should be handled by setting your Cookies
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preferences. The default setting is <q>Allow all cookies</q>.</p>
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<p>To change your Cookies preferences:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
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<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
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<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Cookies. (If no
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subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
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the list.)</li>
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<li>Set your Cookies preferences.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>For more information about the effect of each setting, see
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<a href="#cookies">Privacy & Security Preferences - Cookies</a>.</p>
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<p>[<a href="#using_the_cookie_manager">Return to beginning of
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section</a>]</p>
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<h2 id="managing_cookies_site-by-site">Managing Cookies Site-By-Site</h2>
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<p>To set cookie permissions for the current site:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager.</li>
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<li>Choose one of the following items:
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Block Cookies from this Site</strong>: Block the
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current site from setting cookies.</li>
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<li><strong>Use Default Cookie Permissions</strong>: Reset
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cookie permission for the current site and use the
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<a href="#cookie_manager_settings">default settings</a>.</li>
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<li><strong>Allow Session Cookies from this Site</strong>: Allow
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the current site to set session cookies. Persistent cookies from
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this site will be downgraded to session cookies.</li>
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<li><strong>Allow Cookies from this Site</strong>: Allow the
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current site to set cookies.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ol>
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<p>To <a href="#add_cookie_sites">set cookie permission</a> for several sites
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or a site you are not viewing, use the Cookie Manager.</p>
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<p>If you have selected <q>Ask for each cookie</q> in
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<a href="#cookie_manager_settings">Privacy & Security Preferences -
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Cookies</a>, you will be warned (while browsing) that a web site is asking to
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set a cookie. When you see such a warning, you can choose to
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Allow, Allow for Session, or Deny the cookie.</p>
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<p>Other dialog options:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Use my choice for all cookies from this site</strong>:
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If you check this option, you will not be warned the next time
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that site tries to set or modify a cookie, and your <q>allow</q> or
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<q>deny</q> response will still be in effect.</li>
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<li><strong>Show Details</strong>/<strong>Hide Details</strong>:
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Click the button to show or hide <a href="#viewing_cookies">detailed
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information</a> of the cookie.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>If you want to change a remembered response later, use the Cookie Manager
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to edit <a href="#stored_cookies">stored cookies</a> and
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<a href="#cookie_sites">add or remove cookie sites</a>.</p>
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<p>To stop automatically accepting or rejecting cookies from a site:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager.</li>
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<li>Choose Manage Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window
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opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.</li>
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<li>Click the Cookie Sites tab. The sites for which you have allowed or
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denied cookies are listed.</li>
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<li>Click to select the site from which you no longer want to automatically
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accept cookies, and then click Remove Cookie.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>[<a href="#using_the_cookie_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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<h2 id="viewing_cookies">Viewing Cookies</h2>
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<p>To view detailed information about cookies:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager.</li>
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<li>Choose Manage Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window
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opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.</li>
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<li>Select a cookie to see its details.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>For more information about the information displayed, see
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<a href="#stored_cookies">Stored Cookies</a>.</p>
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<p>[<a href="#using_the_cookie_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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<h2 id="removing_cookies">Removing Cookies</h2>
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<p><strong>Important</strong>: To remove cookies, follow the steps in this
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section. Do not try to edit the cookies file on your computer.</p>
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<p>To remove one or more cookies from your computer:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager.</li>
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<li>Choose Manage Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window
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opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.</li>
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<li>Select one or more cookies and click Remove Cookie, or click Remove All
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Cookies.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>Even though you've removed the cookies now, you will reacquire those
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same cookies the next time you return to the site.</p>
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<p>To prevent that from happening, select the checkbox labeled <q>Don't
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allow sites that set removed cookies to set future cookies</q>. When this
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checkbox is selected, sites for the cookies that you are removing are
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added to the list of sites whose cookies will automatically be rejected.</p>
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<p>You must click OK for your changes to take effect.</p>
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<p>[<a href="#using_the_cookie_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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<h2 id="setting_privacy_levels">Setting Privacy Levels</h2>
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<p>Many sites develop and publish their privacy policies based on the
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Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) standard. The information that follows
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applies only to sites that post a privacy policy based on the P3P standard
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and the browser's implementation of that standard. The browser's
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implementation may not be, in all cases, identical to the standard published
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by the World Wide Web Consortium.</p>
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<p>A site's P3P privacy policy describes, in a standardized way, what
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kind of information the site collects, to whom it gives that information, and
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how it uses the information. For information about viewing a site's
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privacy policy, see <a href="#viewing_privacy_policies">Viewing Privacy
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Policies</a>.</p>
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<p>&brandShortName;'s implementation of the P3P standard defines three
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levels of privacy: low, medium, and high (the default is medium). You can
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select one of these predefined privacy levels, or you can specify your own
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custom privacy settings in detail. Once you have set your preferred privacy
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level, your browser can compare your preferences with the site's P3P
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policy (if any) and accept or reject cookies accordingly.</p>
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<p>For example, your privacy settings may require the browser to reject cookies
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that collect personal information without informing you. Alternatively, you
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can adjust your privacy settings so that the browser simply warns you when a
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cookie is used in this way, while allowing the action to take place.</p>
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<p>To control the privacy settings you want your browser to enforce for all
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sites:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
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<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
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<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Cookies. (If no
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subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
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the list.)</li>
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<li>Select the option labeled <q>Allow cookies based on privacy
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settings</q>.</li>
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<li>Click View.</li>
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<li>In the Privacy Settings dialog box, select the level of privacy you want,
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or select <q>custom</q> and specify your own privacy settings as
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discussed below.</li>
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<li>Click OK to confirm your settings.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>Your browser handles cookies according to the settings you select. If you do
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not select a preferred setting, the browser defaults to medium. The low,
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medium, and high options are predefined by &brandShortName;. For more
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information about these predefined options, see
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<a href="#privacy_settings">Privacy Settings</a>.</p>
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<p>When the <q>custom</q> option is selected, you can specify your own
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privacy settings in detail. Depending on the P3P policy of the site setting
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the cookie, and depending on whether or not the site setting the cookie is
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the one you are viewing, you can select whether you want the Cookie Manager
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to accept the cookie, reject it, accept it just for the current session (that
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is, until you exit the browser), or flag it.</p>
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<p>If you choose Reject, Flag, or Session for a given category of cookies, the
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Cookie Manager displays the cookie notification icon
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(<img alt="cookie notification icon"
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src="chrome://cookie/content/taskbar-cookie.gif"/>)
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near the lower-right corner of the browser window whenever a site that
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fits the category sets a cookie. When this icon is displayed, you can click
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it to get information about the affected cookies.</p>
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<p><q>First party cookies</q> are cookies set by the site you are
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visiting. <q>Third-party cookies</q>, also known as
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<a href="privacy_help.xhtml#what_are_third-party_cookies">foreign cookies</a>,
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are set by sites other than the one you are viewing.</p>
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<p>For more details, see <a href="#privacy_settings">Privacy Settings</a>.</p>
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<p>[<a href="#using_the_cookie_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
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<h1 id="cookie_manager_settings">Cookie Manager Settings</h1>
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<p>This section describes how to set your Cookies preferences and control other
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aspects of cookie handling.</p>
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<p>For step-by-step descriptions of various tasks related to cookies, see
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<a href="#using_the_cookie_manager">Using the Cookie Manager</a>.</p>
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<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#cookies">Privacy & Security Preferences -
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Cookies</a></li>
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<li><a href="#stored_cookies">Stored Cookies</a></li>
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<li><a href="#cookie_sites">Cookie Sites</a></li>
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<li><a href="#privacy_settings">Privacy Settings</a></li>
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<li><a href="#cookie_notification">Cookie Notification</a></li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<h2 id="cookies">Privacy & Security Preferences - Cookies</h2>
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<p>Your browser is set by default to accept all cookies. This section describes
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how to use the Cookies preferences panel to change that setting. If
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you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
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<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
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<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Cookies. (If no
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subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
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the list.)</li>
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</ol>
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<p>Cookies help sites keep track of information for you, such as the
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contents of your on-line shopping cart or which cities' weather you want
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to know about. For a brief overview, see
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<a href="privacy_help.xhtml#what_are_cookies_and_how_do_they_work">What Are
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Cookies and How Do They Work?</a></p>
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<p>You can select one of these options:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Block cookies</strong>: Select this option to refuse all
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cookies.</li>
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<li><strong>Allow cookies for the originating website only</strong>: Select
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this option if you don't want to accept or return
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<a href="privacy_help.xhtml#what_are_third-party_cookies">foreign
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cookies</a>.</li>
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<li><strong>Allow cookies based on privacy settings</strong>: Select this
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option if you handle cookies based on your privacy settings. If you select
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this option, click the View Privacy Settings button to confirm or modify
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your privacy settings.</li>
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<li><strong>Allow all cookies</strong>: This is the default option. Select
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this option to permit all sites not explicitly blocked to set cookies on
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your computer.</li>
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</ul>
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<p><strong>Note</strong>: Blocking cookies does not remove old cookies. By
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blocking cookies you only block sites from setting new cookies, and old
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cookies will still be sent to sites. To completely block a site from receiving
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old cookies, you need to <a href="#removing_cookies">remove its cookies</a>.
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</p>
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<p><strong>Note</strong>: <a href="#cookie_sites">Per-site cookie permission</a>
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supersedes default cookie setting. For example, if you allow a site to set
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cookies, the site can set cookies even if you choose <q>Block cookies</q>.
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</p>
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<p>If you allow cookies or do not change the default setting, you can also
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select the following preferences:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Accept cookies normally</strong>: Select this
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if you want sites to set or modify cookies without restrictions.</li>
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<li><strong>Accept for current session only</strong>: Select this to delete
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the cookie the next time you exit your browser.</li>
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<li><strong>Accept cookies for [__] days</strong>: Select this if you
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want to limit the length of time any cookie can remain on your computer,
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then type the number of days.</li>
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<li><strong>Ask for each cookie</strong>: Select this if you want
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Cookie Manager to warn you each time a site is about to store a cookie.
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||
|
|
In addition, you can choose <strong>except for session cookies</strong>: so
|
||
|
|
that &brandShortName; will not warn you if the site is setting cookies
|
||
|
|
which will be deleted when you exit your browser.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
<p>You can also get more information about your stored cookies:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Manage Stored Cookies</strong>: Click this button to view
|
||
|
|
information about the cookies currently stored on your computer and which
|
||
|
|
sites are allowed to set them.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="stored_cookies">Stored Cookies</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>This section describes how to use the Stored Cookies tab of the Cookie
|
||
|
|
Manager. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Choose Manage Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window
|
||
|
|
opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The Stored Cookies tab lists all the cookies stored on your computer, the
|
||
|
|
sites they belong to, and their current status.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>If you can't see the Status column, click the icon in the upper-right
|
||
|
|
corner of the table and select Status. This column indicates which cookies
|
||
|
|
have been flagged or accepted according to your
|
||
|
|
<a href="#privacy_settings">Privacy Settings</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>When you select a cookie in this list, the following information about that
|
||
|
|
cookie appears in the bottom portion of the tab:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
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|
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<table class="defaultTable">
|
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|
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<thead>
|
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|
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<tr>
|
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|
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<th>Item</th>
|
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|
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<th>Explanation</th>
|
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</tr>
|
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|
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</thead>
|
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|
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<tbody>
|
||
|
|
<tr>
|
||
|
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<td>Name</td>
|
||
|
|
<td>The name assigned to the cookie by its originator.</td>
|
||
|
|
</tr>
|
||
|
|
<tr class="even">
|
||
|
|
<td>Information</td>
|
||
|
|
<td>A string of characters containing the information a site tracks
|
||
|
|
for you. It might contain a user key or name by which you are
|
||
|
|
identified to the site, information about your interests, and so
|
||
|
|
forth.</td>
|
||
|
|
</tr>
|
||
|
|
<tr>
|
||
|
|
<td>Host or domain</td>
|
||
|
|
<td>Provides the name of the cookie's host or domain.
|
||
|
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|
||
|
|
<p>A <strong>host</strong> cookie is sent back, during subsequent
|
||
|
|
visits, only to the <a href="glossary.xhtml#server">server</a> that
|
||
|
|
set it.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>A <strong>domain</strong> cookie is sent back to any site
|
||
|
|
that's in the same domain as the site that set it. A site's
|
||
|
|
domain is the part of its URL that contains the name of an
|
||
|
|
organization, business, or school—such as netscape.com or
|
||
|
|
washington.org.</p>
|
||
|
|
</td>
|
||
|
|
</tr>
|
||
|
|
<tr class="even">
|
||
|
|
<td>Path</td>
|
||
|
|
<td>The file pathway. This is provided only if the cookie should be sent
|
||
|
|
back to all URLs that are on that path or lower. For example,
|
||
|
|
<tt>http://a.b/x/y/z.html</tt> means that the cookie can also be set
|
||
|
|
for path <tt>x/</tt>.</td>
|
||
|
|
</tr>
|
||
|
|
<tr>
|
||
|
|
<td>Send For</td>
|
||
|
|
<td>When this field is <q>For encrypted connections only</q> it means
|
||
|
|
that the browser checks the connection whenever the server asks for a
|
||
|
|
cookie and will not send it unless the connection is encrypted
|
||
|
|
(HTTPS).</td>
|
||
|
|
</tr>
|
||
|
|
<tr class="even">
|
||
|
|
<td>Expires</td>
|
||
|
|
<td>The date and time at which the cookie will be deactivated. The
|
||
|
|
browser regularly removes expired cookies from your computer.</td>
|
||
|
|
</tr>
|
||
|
|
</tbody>
|
||
|
|
</table>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To remove cookies, click one of these buttons:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Remove Cookie</strong>: Removes the selected cookie or cookies
|
||
|
|
from the list.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Remove All Cookies</strong>: Removes all cookies from the
|
||
|
|
list.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Select this checkbox to prevent the cookies you remove from being added back
|
||
|
|
into the list later:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Don't allow sites that set removed cookies to set future
|
||
|
|
cookies</strong></li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Even if you remove cookies now, you will reacquire those same cookies the
|
||
|
|
next time you return to the site. To prevent that from happening, select
|
||
|
|
this checkbox. When this checkbox is selected, sites for the cookies that
|
||
|
|
you are removing are added to the list of sites whose cookies will
|
||
|
|
automatically be rejected.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>You must click Close for your changes to take effect.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="cookie_sites">Cookie Sites</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>This section describes how to use the Cookie Sites tab of the Cookie
|
||
|
|
Manager. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Cookie Manager.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Choose Manage Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window
|
||
|
|
opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click the Cookie Sites tab.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The Cookie Sites tab of the Cookie Manager lists the sites for which your
|
||
|
|
decisions have been remembered, and what your decisions were. It also allows
|
||
|
|
you to add and remove sites from the list.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h3 id="add_cookie_sites">Adding Cookie Sites</h3>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To add cookies sites manually:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li>Enter the site address, e.g. <tt>www.mozilla.org</tt></li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Set the site cookie permission:
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Block</strong>: Click this button to add the site as a site
|
||
|
|
blocked from setting cookies.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Session</strong>: Click this button to add the site as a site
|
||
|
|
that can set session cookies. Persistent cookies from this site will
|
||
|
|
be downgraded to session cookies.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Allow</strong>: Click this button to add the site as a
|
||
|
|
site that can set cookies.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Repeat the steps to add additional sites.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h3 id="remove_cookie_sites">Removing Cookie Sites</h3>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To remove a cookie site:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Remove Site</strong>: Removes the selected site or sites from the
|
||
|
|
list.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Remove All Sites</strong>: Removes all sites from the list.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Once you've removed a site from this list, Cookie Manager remembers
|
||
|
|
nothing about it. If the <q>Ask for each cookie</q> option is selected in
|
||
|
|
the Cookies preferences panel, you will be warned when any site not in this
|
||
|
|
list requests permission to set a cookie.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="privacy_settings">Privacy Settings</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>This section describes how to use the Privacy Settings window. If
|
||
|
|
you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
|
||
|
|
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Cookies. (If no
|
||
|
|
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
|
||
|
|
the list.)</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Select the radio button labeled <q>Allow cookies based on privacy
|
||
|
|
settings</q>.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click View Privacy Settings.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>For more information about using privacy settings, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="#setting_privacy_levels">Setting Privacy Levels</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#level_of_privacy">Level of Privacy</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#cookie_acceptance_policy">Cookie Acceptance Policy</a></li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
</div>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h3 id="level_of_privacy">Level of Privacy</h3>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The level of privacy you set here determines how your browser treats cookies
|
||
|
|
according to privacy policies based on the P3P standard that published by
|
||
|
|
some sites and on the settings displayed under Cookie Acceptance Policy
|
||
|
|
for first-party and third-party cookies.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p><q>First party cookies</q> are cookies set by the site you are
|
||
|
|
visiting. <q>Third-party cookies</q>, also known as
|
||
|
|
<a href="privacy_help.xhtml#what_are_third-party_cookies">foreign
|
||
|
|
cookies</a>, are set by sites other than the one you are viewing.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>You can select one of the following privacy levels:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>low</strong>: Select this if you want to accept all first-party
|
||
|
|
cookies without regard to a site's privacy policy.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>When this setting is selected, the browser accepts all third-party
|
||
|
|
cookies, but <strong>flags</strong> third-party cookies from sites that
|
||
|
|
indicate they may collect personally identifiable information without
|
||
|
|
your consent. Flagged cookies are listed as <q>flagged</q> in the
|
||
|
|
status column of the Cookie Manager's
|
||
|
|
<a href="#stored_cookies">Stored Cookies</a> tab.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>When a cookie is first flagged, the Cookie Manager displays the cookie
|
||
|
|
notification icon (<img alt="cookie notification icon"
|
||
|
|
src="chrome://cookie/content/taskbar-cookie.gif"/>) near the
|
||
|
|
lower-right corner of the browser window (if it's not already
|
||
|
|
present). You can click the cookie notification icon to see more detailed
|
||
|
|
information about the flagged cookies.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>medium</strong>: Select this if you want to accept and flag both
|
||
|
|
first-party and third-party cookies set by sites that may be collecting
|
||
|
|
personally identifiable information without your consent. This is the
|
||
|
|
default setting.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>high</strong>: Select this if you want the same settings as
|
||
|
|
medium, with the following differences:
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li>Reject third-party cookies set by sites that may be collecting
|
||
|
|
information without your consent that can be used to identify you.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Accept, for the current session only, third-party cookies that may be
|
||
|
|
collecting information without your consent that can be used to
|
||
|
|
identify you, but also provide a web page or some other mechanism that
|
||
|
|
allows you to withhold your consent.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>custom</strong>: Select this if you want to set your own custom
|
||
|
|
Cookie Acceptance Policy. The default settings for <q>custom</q> are
|
||
|
|
whatever they happened to be just before you select this option. You can
|
||
|
|
modify them by selecting from the drop-down menus in the Cookie Acceptance
|
||
|
|
Policy portion of the dialog box.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To see the exact effect of each privacy-level setting, select it and then
|
||
|
|
examine the Cookie Acceptance Policy settings.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h3 id="cookie_acceptance_policy">Cookie Acceptance Policy</h3>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>If you select the <strong>custom</strong> option in the top portion of the
|
||
|
|
Privacy Settings dialog box, you can choose one of four settings from the
|
||
|
|
drop-down list in each of the eight categories shown in the bottom portion.
|
||
|
|
These settings cause Cookie Manager to perform the following actions:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Accept</strong>: Accept all cookies in the category.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Session</strong>: Accept all cookies in the category for the
|
||
|
|
current session only—that is, until you exit the browser.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Reject</strong>: Reject all cookies in the category.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Flag</strong>: Lists the cookie's status as
|
||
|
|
<q>flagged</q> in the status column of the Cookie Manager's
|
||
|
|
<a href="#stored_cookies">Stored Cookies</a> tab and display the cookie
|
||
|
|
notification icon.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The cookie notification icon (<img alt="cookie notification icon"
|
||
|
|
src="chrome://cookie/content/taskbar-cookie.gif"/>) appears near the
|
||
|
|
lower-right corner of the browser window. You can click it to get information
|
||
|
|
about the affected cookies or modify your privacy settings.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Sites are classified in four categories for each of the two types
|
||
|
|
(first-party and third-party) of cookies:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Site has no privacy policy</strong>: Site does not publish any
|
||
|
|
kind of privacy policy. There is no way of knowing what kinds of
|
||
|
|
information such sites collect or what they do with it.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Site collects personally identifiable information without your
|
||
|
|
consent</strong>: Site publishes a privacy policy, but does not ask your
|
||
|
|
permission when it collects personally identifiable information.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Site collects personally identifiable information with only your
|
||
|
|
implicit consent</strong>: Site collects information about you unless you
|
||
|
|
go to a web page (or use some other designated mechanism) to explicitly
|
||
|
|
withhold your consent (opt-out).</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Site does not collect personally identifiable information without
|
||
|
|
your explicit consent</strong>: Sites will not collect personally
|
||
|
|
identifiable information unless you have explicitly agreed (opt-in).</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="cookie_notification">Cookie Notification</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The cookie notification icon (<img alt="cookie notification icon"
|
||
|
|
src="chrome://cookie/content/taskbar-cookie.gif"/>) is displayed in the
|
||
|
|
status bar near the lower-right corner of the browser window. It appears when
|
||
|
|
a site has used a cookie in a way that requires you to be notified
|
||
|
|
according to your current <a href="#privacy_settings">Privacy
|
||
|
|
Settings</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>This section describes how to use the Cookie Notification dialog box, which
|
||
|
|
appears when you click the Cookie Notification icon. You can take the
|
||
|
|
following actions from this dialog box:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Turn Off Privacy Settings</strong>: Click this button to disable
|
||
|
|
your Privacy Settings. This has the same effect as selecting <q>Enable
|
||
|
|
all cookies</q> in <a href="#cookies">Privacy & Security
|
||
|
|
Preferences - Cookies</a>. After you take this action, your browser will
|
||
|
|
accept all cookies.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>View Cookie Manager</strong>: Click this button to open the
|
||
|
|
Cookie Manager, where you can view the current status of all your cookies
|
||
|
|
and identify the cookies that caused the notification icon to appear.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>View Privacy Settings</strong>: Click this button to open the
|
||
|
|
Privacy Settings dialog box. The settings in this dialog box determine how
|
||
|
|
sites can use cookies on your computer and what actions cause the cookie
|
||
|
|
notification icon to be displayed.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Close</strong>: Click this button to exit the Cookie Notification
|
||
|
|
dialog box without taking any action.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>For more information about using privacy settings, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="#setting_privacy_levels">Setting Privacy Levels</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h1 id="using_the_password_manager">Using the Password Manager</h1>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Many sites require you to type a user name and password before you can
|
||
|
|
enter the site. For instance, personalized pages and sites containing your
|
||
|
|
financial information usually require you to log in.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The user name and password you use at a particular site can be read by the
|
||
|
|
site's administrator. Potentially, that person could then attempt to log
|
||
|
|
into other sites where you may have used the same user name and password. If
|
||
|
|
this concerns you, you may wish to use a different password at every site
|
||
|
|
with which you register.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Password Manager can help you remember some or all of your names and
|
||
|
|
passwords by storing them on your computer's hard disk, and entering
|
||
|
|
them for you automatically when you visit such sites.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href=
|
||
|
|
"#using_password_manager_to_remember_user_names_and_passwords">Using
|
||
|
|
Password Manager to Remember User Names and Passwords</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#entering_user_names_and_passwords_automatically">Entering
|
||
|
|
User Names and Passwords Automatically</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#turning_password_manager_on_and_off">Turning Password Manager
|
||
|
|
On and Off</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#viewing_and_managing_stored_passwords">Viewing and Managing
|
||
|
|
Stored Passwords</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="passwords_help.xhtml">Password Settings</a></li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
</div>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="using_password_manager_to_remember_user_names_and_passwords">Using
|
||
|
|
Password Manager to Remember User Names and Passwords</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>When Password Manager is active (as it is by default), it gives you an
|
||
|
|
opportunity to save user names and passwords on your hard drive that you
|
||
|
|
enter while using the Internet.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>For example, after you log onto a site from a page that requests a user
|
||
|
|
name and password, a dialog box appears asking, <q>Do you want Password
|
||
|
|
Manager to remember this logon?</q> When you see this dialog box, you can
|
||
|
|
click one of the following buttons:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Yes</strong>: The next time you return to the site you'll
|
||
|
|
see that your user name and password are already filled in. All you have to
|
||
|
|
do is click the Login button (or equivalent) to send them to the
|
||
|
|
server.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Never for this site</strong>: Password Manager will not ask in
|
||
|
|
the future if you want to save your user name and password for that
|
||
|
|
site.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>No</strong>: Password Manager won't remember the user name
|
||
|
|
and password, but will ask again the next time you visit the site.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Similarly, when you log onto an email account or an FTP site, or perform any
|
||
|
|
other action that requires the browser itself to display a special dialog box
|
||
|
|
for your login information, you can select this option in the dialog box:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Use Password Manager to remember these values</strong></li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The next time you check your email or perform other tasks that require a
|
||
|
|
password only, the password will be submitted directly without any further
|
||
|
|
action on your part. For tasks that require you to enter both a user name and
|
||
|
|
password, you need to click a Login button or equivalent after Password
|
||
|
|
Manager fills in the information.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Password Manager saves your user names and passwords on your own computer in
|
||
|
|
a file that's difficult, but not impossible, for an intruder to read.
|
||
|
|
See <a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Encrypting Stored
|
||
|
|
Sensitive Information</a> for information on protecting your stored user
|
||
|
|
names and passwords with encryption technology.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>If the Password Manager dialog box described above does not appear when you
|
||
|
|
click Submit after typing your user name and password, Password Manager may
|
||
|
|
be turned off or the site may disallow its use.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To check whether Password Manager is currently active, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="#turning_password_manager_on_and_off">Turning Password Manager On
|
||
|
|
and Off</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#using_the_password_manager">Return to beginning of
|
||
|
|
section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="entering_user_names_and_passwords_automatically">Entering User Names
|
||
|
|
and Passwords Automatically</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>There are two different ways that Password Manager can fill in user names
|
||
|
|
and passwords on your behalf:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li>You use Password Manager to remember your user name and password for a
|
||
|
|
site (using the three-button dialog box described in
|
||
|
|
<a href=
|
||
|
|
"#using_password_manager_to_remember_user_names_and_passwords">Using
|
||
|
|
Password Manager to Remember User Names and Passwords</a>).
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The next time you visit the site, Password Manager automatically fills
|
||
|
|
in your user name and password on the site's log in page. You can
|
||
|
|
then click the Login button, or equivalent, to send the information to
|
||
|
|
the server.</p>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>You use Password Manager to remember your user name and password for an
|
||
|
|
email account, an FTP site, or in any other situation where you type login
|
||
|
|
information in a dialog box that displays a checkbox labeled <q>Use
|
||
|
|
Password Manager to remember these values</q>.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>In most cases, the next time you attempt to access that server, Password
|
||
|
|
Manager automatically fills in your user name and password in the same
|
||
|
|
dialog box. You can then click OK to send the information to the
|
||
|
|
server.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>In some cases, such as when you open your email account,
|
||
|
|
&brandShortName; needs to send only the password to the server, and does
|
||
|
|
so immediately without displaying the dialog box or requiring any further
|
||
|
|
action on your part.</p>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#using_the_password_manager">Return to beginning of
|
||
|
|
section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="turning_password_manager_on_and_off">Turning Password Manager On and
|
||
|
|
Off</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Password Manager is on by default. To turn it off:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
|
||
|
|
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Passwords. (If no
|
||
|
|
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
|
||
|
|
the list.)</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>In the Password Manager section, deselect <q>Remember passwords</q>
|
||
|
|
to turn Password Manager off.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To turn Password Manager on, follow steps 1 and 2 above, but select the
|
||
|
|
checkbox in step 3 rather than deselecting it.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#using_the_password_manager">Return to beginning of
|
||
|
|
section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="viewing_and_managing_stored_passwords">Viewing and Managing Stored
|
||
|
|
Passwords</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To see the user names and passwords you have stored and to display a list of
|
||
|
|
sites from which logon information never is saved:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the Tools menu, choose Password Manager, and then choose Manage
|
||
|
|
Stored Passwords from the submenu. You see the Password Manager window with
|
||
|
|
the Passwords Saved tab opened.
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li>To see your saved passwords, click Show Passwords and confirm your
|
||
|
|
choice.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>To hide your passwords, click Hide Passwords.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>To remove an entry from the list, click it and then click Remove. The
|
||
|
|
next time you visit the site, you will need to enter your user name
|
||
|
|
and password again, since Password Manager will no longer have the
|
||
|
|
information.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
Click the Passwords Never Saved tab to see a list of the sites for which
|
||
|
|
you instructed Password Manager never to store user names and passwords. To
|
||
|
|
remove a site from this list, click it and then click Remove. The next
|
||
|
|
time you log into the site, you can use the stored user name and
|
||
|
|
password (if available) or indicate that you want Password Manager to save
|
||
|
|
the information for that site.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#using_the_password_manager">Return to beginning of
|
||
|
|
section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h1 id="using_the_form_manager">Using the Form Manager</h1>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Many web pages contain forms for you to fill out—order forms for
|
||
|
|
online shopping, information databases, and so forth.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Form Manager can save the personal data you enter into online forms, such as
|
||
|
|
your name, address, phone, credit card numbers, and so on. This information
|
||
|
|
is stored on your hard drive. Then, when a site presents you with a form,
|
||
|
|
Form Manager can fill it in automatically.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#saving_form_data">Saving Form Data</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#filling_out_forms_automatically">Filling Out Forms
|
||
|
|
Automatically</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#turning_off_form_manager_notification">Turning Off Form
|
||
|
|
Manager Notification</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#managing_stored_form_data">Managing Stored Form Data</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#editing_stored_site_information">Editing Stored Site
|
||
|
|
Information</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#viewing_privacy_policies">Viewing Privacy Policies</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#form_settings">Form Settings</a></li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
</div>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="saving_form_data">Saving Form Data</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>By default, when you fill out an online form and click Submit, Form Manager
|
||
|
|
detects the form and displays a dialog box asking if you want to save the
|
||
|
|
personal data you just entered. Soon, Form Manager will have enough data to
|
||
|
|
begin filling out forms automatically.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>There are two ways to save personal data:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li>Each time you submit an online form that includes certain kinds of
|
||
|
|
information, such as your name and address, Form Manager asks if you want
|
||
|
|
the information saved. Click Yes.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Note that Form Manager prompts you only if its automatic notification
|
||
|
|
feature is turned on. (This feature is turned on by default.) For
|
||
|
|
details, see <a href="#turning_off_form_manager_notification">Turning Off
|
||
|
|
Form Manager Notification</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>After you fill out a form (but before you submit it), open the Edit menu
|
||
|
|
and choose Save Form Info.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>When Form Manager asks if you want to save values that you've entered
|
||
|
|
in a form (the first method described above), it gives you three options:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Yes</strong>: Click this button to save the information you
|
||
|
|
entered. In the future, you can automatically fill in a form that requests
|
||
|
|
the same information.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Never for this site</strong>: Click this button to ensure that
|
||
|
|
Form Manager will not ask in the future if you want to save information
|
||
|
|
that you enter in forms at this site.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>You may want to do this if you want to ensure that you'll always
|
||
|
|
have to enter sensitive information manually at a particular site. You
|
||
|
|
can change your mind later if you like; for details, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="#editing_stored_site_information">Editing Stored Site
|
||
|
|
Information</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>No</strong>: Form Manager won't save the information you
|
||
|
|
entered, but will ask again the next time you enter form information at
|
||
|
|
this site.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Form Manager stores your personal data on your own computer in a file
|
||
|
|
that's difficult, but not impossible, for an intruder to read. See
|
||
|
|
<a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Encrypting Stored
|
||
|
|
Sensitive Information</a> for information on protecting your information with
|
||
|
|
encryption technology.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="filling_out_forms_automatically">Filling Out Forms Automatically</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>You can use the Form Manager to fill out forms automatically in two ways:
|
||
|
|
either one field at a time, or multiple fields at once. In both cases, the
|
||
|
|
information is not actually sent to the site until you click the Submit
|
||
|
|
button or perform some similar action.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To fill out a single field automatically in an online form, double-click in
|
||
|
|
the field. If Form Manager has stored the data for that field, it will fill
|
||
|
|
it in. You can edit the filled-in data if necessary.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To fill out multiple fields in an online form all at once:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Go to the online form you want to fill out.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the Edit menu and choose Fill in Form.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Note that the Fill in Form menu item won't be accessible if the
|
||
|
|
Form Manager hasn't yet stored any relevant information.</p>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>A dialog box called Prefill Form Data appears (unless you have previously
|
||
|
|
chosen to bypass it for this site). This shows exactly what information
|
||
|
|
Form Manager is about to fill in. You can use this dialog box as follows:
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li>To prevent a field from being filled in automatically, deselect the
|
||
|
|
checkbox beside it.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>To prevent any fields from being filled in automatically, click
|
||
|
|
Cancel.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p><strong>Important</strong>: You can also choose to bypass this dialog
|
||
|
|
box in the future. However, if you bypass this screen, you risk filling
|
||
|
|
in personal information (such as your credit card number) inadvertently.
|
||
|
|
For details, see below.</p>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click OK to confirm your choices. Form Manager then fills in the form as
|
||
|
|
you specified.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The form is now filled in with the saved information. You may still need
|
||
|
|
to provide some additional information that the Form Manager does not
|
||
|
|
have available. The information is not actually sent to the site until
|
||
|
|
you click Submit or perform some similar action.</p>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>In addition to providing a convenient way to confirm saved data and fill in
|
||
|
|
a form all at once, the Prefill Form Data dialog box is useful for two
|
||
|
|
reasons:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li>Prefill Form Data can help you prevent malicious sites from collecting
|
||
|
|
data you are not aware of.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>For example, it's possible for a site to hide a field on a form
|
||
|
|
where you can't see it and specify that field to be a credit card
|
||
|
|
number. If you prefill the form without first examining the information
|
||
|
|
displayed in the Prefill Form Data dialog box, you may end up providing
|
||
|
|
your credit card number to such a site without realizing it. Prefill
|
||
|
|
Form Data lets you see every value that will be provided to the site,
|
||
|
|
allowing you to detect such tricks.</p>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Prefill Form Data allows you to select which of several saved values for
|
||
|
|
a given field you want to use for a particular site.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>For a detailed description of the Prefill Form Data dialog box, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="#prefill_form_data">Prefill Form Data</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="turning_off_form_manager_notification">Turning Off Form Manager
|
||
|
|
Notification</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Form Manager is set to prompt you to save information whenever you submit an
|
||
|
|
online form that includes certain kinds of information, such as your name and
|
||
|
|
address. To stop these messages from appearing on your screen:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
|
||
|
|
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Forms. (If no
|
||
|
|
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
|
||
|
|
the list.)</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>In the Form Manager section, deselect <q>Save form data from web pages
|
||
|
|
when completing forms</q>.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Note that deselecting this option turns off the notification feature, but
|
||
|
|
not Form Manager. The form data it may have already collected is still
|
||
|
|
available.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>You can still open the Edit menu and choose Save Form Info any time you want
|
||
|
|
to save information from a form you've just filled in, or choose Fill in
|
||
|
|
Form (or double-click each field) to fill in a form automatically.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="managing_stored_form_data">Managing Stored Form Data</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To examine or edit personal data that Form Manager has saved:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
|
||
|
|
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>From the Privacy & Security category, click Forms. (If no
|
||
|
|
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
|
||
|
|
the list.)</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click Manage Stored Form Data.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The Form Manager dialog box for editing data appears. Click the
|
||
|
|
subcategories on the left to view or edit the corresponding data in the panel
|
||
|
|
on the right. To view subcategories that aren't visible, double-click a
|
||
|
|
category to expand the list.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To add information not currently included in one of the drop down lists on
|
||
|
|
the right, select the blank item and start typing. Similarly, select existing
|
||
|
|
text to edit or delete it.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The last category on the left side, Other Saved Information, includes panels
|
||
|
|
for two special kinds of data:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Concatenations</strong> lists data stored as a single element
|
||
|
|
that would normally be stored as two or more elements. For example, data
|
||
|
|
stored from a single Full Name field that includes both your first and last
|
||
|
|
names would be stored here together rather than separately in those
|
||
|
|
individual categories.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>URL-Specific</strong> lists fields and the values to use for each
|
||
|
|
of them that are applicable only for the site where you entered
|
||
|
|
them.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="editing_stored_site_information">Editing Stored Site Information</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>As explained in <a href="#saving_form_data">Saving Form Data</a>, you can
|
||
|
|
choose <q>Never for this site</q> when Form Manager prompts you to save
|
||
|
|
data you've entered in a form. Similarly, you can choose not to display
|
||
|
|
the Prefill Form Data dialog box on a site-by-site basis.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Form Manager lets you change your mind about these decisions at any time. To
|
||
|
|
view site-specific information about your saved form data:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
|
||
|
|
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>From the Privacy and Security category, click Forms. (If no subcategories
|
||
|
|
are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand the list.)</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click Manage Sites.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The Form Manager dialog box for managing sites appears:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li>The Forms Never Previewed tab lists the sites for which you've
|
||
|
|
decided not to display the Prefill Form Data dialog box.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>The Forms Never Saved tab lists the sites for which you've asked not
|
||
|
|
to be prompted to save form data.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To remove a site from either list and thus restore the default behavior,
|
||
|
|
select the site and click Remove. For more details, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="#form_manager_sites">Form Manager - Sites</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="viewing_privacy_policies">Viewing Privacy Policies</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>When you provide personal information such as your name, phone number, or
|
||
|
|
email address to a site, or when the site collects personal information in
|
||
|
|
other ways, the site can use the information for its own purposes (such as
|
||
|
|
shipping you a product or customizing your browsing experience) and can
|
||
|
|
potentially share it with others.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Before providing personal information on an online form, you must decide
|
||
|
|
whether or not you trust the site—just as you judge whether or not
|
||
|
|
you trust a catalog company before you provide your credit card number on the
|
||
|
|
company's order form.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>One way to evaluate a site's trustworthiness is to examine its
|
||
|
|
published privacy policy. Sites publish privacy statements online, and
|
||
|
|
some of them publish such statements based on the Platform for Privacy
|
||
|
|
Preferences (P3P) standard and the browser's implementation of that
|
||
|
|
standard.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>A site's privacy policy describes what kind of information the site
|
||
|
|
collects, to whom it gives that information, and how it uses the information.
|
||
|
|
Sites publish privacy policies in both human-readable form and as a file
|
||
|
|
that can be interpreted by the browser according to your
|
||
|
|
<a href="#privacy_settings">Privacy Settings</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To view a site's privacy policy, browse to the site and follow these
|
||
|
|
steps:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the View menu and choose Page Info. The Page Info window
|
||
|
|
appears.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click the Privacy tab.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click these buttons to see the corresponding information:
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Policy</strong>: Click this button to view the site's
|
||
|
|
published privacy policy on the web.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Summary</strong>: Click this button to view a summary of the
|
||
|
|
site's built-in XML policy file, which defines the site's
|
||
|
|
policies in detail.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Options</strong>: Click this button to view a web page
|
||
|
|
provided by the site where you can choose to withhold or grant your
|
||
|
|
consent to certain kinds of information gathering.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Many web pages are made up of a variety of text, images, advertisements, and
|
||
|
|
other elements, some of which may be controlled by different companies.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To view the same information for any individual element of the web page:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Double-click the categories to see addresses for individual
|
||
|
|
components.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Select the component whose privacy policy you want to examine.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click the buttons as described above.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>For more information on controlling your privacy, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="#setting_privacy_levels">Setting Privacy Levels</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Return to beginning of section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h1 id="form_settings">Form Settings</h1>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>When you fill out an online form, Form Manager normally detects the form
|
||
|
|
and, when you click Submit, gives you an opportunity to save the data you
|
||
|
|
entered.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>This section describes the preferences and other settings that control the
|
||
|
|
way Form Manager works.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>For step-by-step instructions on using these settings, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Using the Form Manager</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#forms">Privacy & Security Preferences - Forms</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#form_manager_data">Form Manager - Data</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#form_manager_sites">Form Manager - Sites</a></li>
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="#prefill_form_data">Prefill Form Data</a></li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
</div>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="forms">Privacy & Security Preferences - Forms</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>This section describes how to use the Forms preferences panel. If you are
|
||
|
|
not already viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
|
||
|
|
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Forms. (If no
|
||
|
|
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
|
||
|
|
the list.)</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h3 id="form_manager">Form Manager</h3>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>When you fill out an online form and click Submit, Form Manager displays a
|
||
|
|
dialog box that asks if you want it to save the form data you just entered
|
||
|
|
(but only some of the filled-in fields include standard ones such as name and
|
||
|
|
address).</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>If you click Yes at least some of the time, Form Manager will soon have
|
||
|
|
enough data to begin filling out forms automatically.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Form preferences allow you to:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Save form data from web pages when completing forms</strong>:
|
||
|
|
This checkbox determines whether you are asked if you want to save form
|
||
|
|
data every time you submit a new form. This option is selected by default.
|
||
|
|
If you deselect it, Form Manager never asks if you want to save form data.
|
||
|
|
The only way to save form data is for you open the Edit Menu and choose
|
||
|
|
Save Form Info while viewing a form that you've just filled in.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Note that deselecting this option turns off the notification feature,
|
||
|
|
but not Form Manager. The form data it may have already collected is
|
||
|
|
still available. You can still open the Edit Menu and choose Fill in Form
|
||
|
|
or Save Form Info.</p>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Manage Stored Form Data</strong>: Click this button to examine or
|
||
|
|
edit personal data that Form Manager has saved. For details, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="#form_manager_data">Form Manager - Data</a>.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Manage Sites</strong>: Click this button to view site-specific
|
||
|
|
information about your saved form data. For details, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="#form_manager_sites">Form Manager - Sites</a>.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="form_manager_data">Form Manager - Data</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>This section describes how to use the window that allows you to edit data
|
||
|
|
saved on your behalf by the Form Manager. If you are not already viewing this
|
||
|
|
window, follow these steps:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
|
||
|
|
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Forms. (If no
|
||
|
|
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
|
||
|
|
the list.)</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click Manage Stored Form Data.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The Form Manager window for managing stored form data allows you to perform
|
||
|
|
two tasks:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Category</strong>: Double-click a category in the Category column
|
||
|
|
to view its subcategories, and click a subcategory to view its data on the
|
||
|
|
right side of the window. To edit or add to the displayed data, click in a
|
||
|
|
field and type.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To add information not currently included in one of the drop down lists
|
||
|
|
on the right, select the blank item and start typing. Similarly, select
|
||
|
|
existing text to edit or delete it.</p>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Remove All Saved Data</strong>: Click this button to remove all
|
||
|
|
the saved data at once.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The last category on the left side, Other Saved Information, includes panels
|
||
|
|
for two special kinds of data:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Concatenations</strong>: The Form Manager typically captures and
|
||
|
|
prefills individual elements, such as first and last name, and combines
|
||
|
|
them when necessary. If it encounters a page that asks for a full name, for
|
||
|
|
example, it prefills it with the first and last name it has stored
|
||
|
|
previously.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>However, if the Form Manager hasn't yet stored your first and last
|
||
|
|
name, it saves the full name (if you ask it to) as a single element in
|
||
|
|
the Concatenations panel.</p>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>URL-Specific</strong>: This panel lists URL-specific fields and
|
||
|
|
the values to use for each of them at each URL for which you have entered
|
||
|
|
such information.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>For step-by-step instructions on using the Form Manager, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Using the Form Manager</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="form_manager_sites">Form Manager - Sites</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>This section describes how to use the dialog box that allows you to edit
|
||
|
|
site information saved on your behalf by Form Manager. If you are not already
|
||
|
|
viewing it, follow these steps:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
|
||
|
|
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Forms. (If no
|
||
|
|
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
|
||
|
|
the list.)</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click Manage Sites.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The Form Manager window for managing sites has two tabs:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Forms Never Previewed</strong>: Click this tab to view the list
|
||
|
|
of sites for which you selected <q>Bypass this screen when prefilling
|
||
|
|
this form in the future</q> after choosing Fill in Form from the Edit
|
||
|
|
menu.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>If you remove an entry from this list, Form Manager will again give you
|
||
|
|
an opportunity to review form data for that site before filling it
|
||
|
|
in.</p>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Forms Never Saved</strong>: Click this tab to view the list of
|
||
|
|
sites for which you selected <q>Never for this site</q> in response to
|
||
|
|
the Form Manager's request to store form data.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>If you remove an entry from this list, Form Manager will again ask
|
||
|
|
whether to store form data when you submit forms at that site (assuming
|
||
|
|
that the main Form Manager notification option has been selected in
|
||
|
|
<a href= "#forms">Privacy & Security Preferences - Forms</a>).</p>
|
||
|
|
</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Regardless of which tab you are viewing, you can remove entries from the
|
||
|
|
list as follows:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Remove</strong>: Select one or more entries that you want to
|
||
|
|
remove, then click this button to remove them.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Remove All</strong>: Click this button to remove all the entries
|
||
|
|
for the tab you are viewing.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>See the descriptions of each tab above for the consequences of removing
|
||
|
|
entries.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>For step-by-step instructions on working with form data, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="#using_the_form_manager">Using the Form Manager</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="prefill_form_data">Prefill Form Data</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>This section describes the window that normally appears when you open the
|
||
|
|
Edit menu and choose Fill In Form.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>However, the Fill in Form menu item is enabled only if you have previously
|
||
|
|
used Form Manager to save some form data and are now viewing a web page that
|
||
|
|
is requesting some of the same data. For step-by-step instructions on working
|
||
|
|
with form data, see <a href="#using_the_form_manager">Using the Form
|
||
|
|
Manager</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The Prefill Form Data window allows you to perform these actions:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Click in a field to edit the displayed data</strong>: Any changes
|
||
|
|
you make here will be reflected in the data used to fill in this form, but
|
||
|
|
won't change your stored data.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Select alternate data</strong>: Click the arrow on the right side
|
||
|
|
of any field to display a drop-down menu for that field. If you have
|
||
|
|
previously used Form Manager to save alternate information (for example, a
|
||
|
|
different mailing address), the available alternates are listed in the
|
||
|
|
menu.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Check the items that you would like to have prefilled</strong>:
|
||
|
|
Only the items with checkmarks beside them will be filled in automatically.
|
||
|
|
When you first open the window, all the items are checked. Click to
|
||
|
|
deselect any that you don't want filled in automatically.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Bypass this screen when prefilling this form in the
|
||
|
|
future</strong>: Select this checkbox to avoid seeing this window the next
|
||
|
|
time you visit this site. This can be convenient; for example, if you
|
||
|
|
frequently need to enter the same data at the same site.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p><strong>Important</strong>: If you bypass this screen, you risk filling
|
||
|
|
in personal information (such as your credit card number) inadvertently.
|
||
|
|
For details, see <a href="#filling_out_forms_automatically">Filling Out
|
||
|
|
Forms Automatically</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>If you change your mind about this decision, you can restore the
|
||
|
|
Prefill Form Data window for this site. For details, see
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<a href="#form_manager_sites">Form Manager - Sites</a>.</p>
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</li>
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<li><strong>View Stored Form Data</strong>: Click this button to examine or
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edit all personal data that Form Manager has saved. For details, see
|
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<a href="#form_manager_data">Form Manager - Data</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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<h1 id="encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Encrypting Stored Sensitive
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Information</h1>
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<p>If you use Password Manager or Form Manager to save passwords and personal
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data, then this sensitive information is stored on your computer in a file
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that's difficult, but not impossible, for an intruder to read.</p>
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<p>For example, if your computer is in an area where unauthorized people have
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access to it, it's possible for a determined person to read the file
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containing your sensitive information.</p>
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<p>For a greater degree of security, you may want to protect the file with
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encryption. Encryption makes it much harder for an unauthorized person to
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view your stored sensitive information.</p>
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<p>Your decision about whether to use encryption for stored sensitive data is a
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tradeoff between improved security and convenience.</p>
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<p>If you use encryption, you will need to enter a master password
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periodically, which can be inconvenient. If you don't, it may be easier
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for a stranger who has access to your computer to steal your passwords.</p>
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<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#turning_encryption_on_and_off">Turning Encryption On and
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Off</a></li>
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<li><a href="#setting_a_master_password">Setting a Master Password</a></li>
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<li><a href="#changing_your_master_password">Changing Your Master
|
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Password</a></li>
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<li><a href="#logging_out_of_your_master_password">Logging Out of Your
|
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|
Master Password</a></li>
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<li><a href="#what_to_do_if_you_forget_your_master_password">What to Do If
|
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You Forget Your Master Password</a></li>
|
||
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</ul>
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</div>
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<h2 id="turning_encryption_on_and_off">Turning Encryption On and Off</h2>
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<p>To turn on encryption for your stored sensitive information:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
|
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<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Passwords. (If no
|
||
|
|
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
|
||
|
|
the list.)</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>In the Encrypting versus Obscuring section, select <q>Use encryption
|
||
|
|
when storing sensitive data</q>.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click OK. If you haven't previously set a master password, a new
|
||
|
|
dialog box appears and leads you through the process of setting it.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To turn encryption off, deselect <q>Use encryption when storing sensitive
|
||
|
|
data</q>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>You must supply your master password when you turn encryption on or off.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Return to beginning of
|
||
|
|
section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="setting_a_master_password">Setting a Master Password</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>If you choose to encrypt your stored sensitive information, you'll need
|
||
|
|
a master password. With encryption selected, you'll be asked for your
|
||
|
|
master password at least once during a &brandShortName; session in which you
|
||
|
|
access any of your stored sensitive information.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>If you choose encryption, but don't already have a master password,
|
||
|
|
you'll be prompted to create one the first time you try to save or
|
||
|
|
retrieve your sensitive information.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>If your master password has not previously been set, you can set at this
|
||
|
|
time:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
|
||
|
|
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Master Passwords. (If no
|
||
|
|
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
|
||
|
|
the list.)</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>In the Change Master Password section, click Change Password to open the
|
||
|
|
Change Master Password dialog box.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Enter your desired master password, and retype it to confirm the
|
||
|
|
spelling.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click OK.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Make sure your new password is difficult to guess. For some suggestions on
|
||
|
|
how to improve password security, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="passwords_help.xhtml#choosing_a_good_password">Choosing a Good
|
||
|
|
Password</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Return to beginning of
|
||
|
|
section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="changing_your_master_password">Changing Your Master Password</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To change your master password:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
|
||
|
|
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Master Passwords. (If no
|
||
|
|
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
|
||
|
|
the list.)</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>In the Change Master Password section, click Change Password to open the
|
||
|
|
Change Master Password dialog box.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Enter your current master password.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Enter your new master password, and retype it to confirm the
|
||
|
|
spelling.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click OK.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Make sure your new password is difficult to guess. For some guidelines, see
|
||
|
|
<a href="passwords_help.xhtml#choosing_a_good_password">Choosing a Good
|
||
|
|
Password</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Return to beginning of
|
||
|
|
section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="logging_out_of_your_master_password">Logging Out of Your Master
|
||
|
|
Password</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Normally, you are asked for your master password once during each
|
||
|
|
&brandShortName; session during which you access any of your stored sensitive
|
||
|
|
information.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>It's also possible to require that your master password be requested
|
||
|
|
each time it is needed, or after a certain amount of time has passed. For
|
||
|
|
details, see <a href="passwords_help.xhtml#master_password_timeout">Master
|
||
|
|
Password Timeout</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>You can log out of your master password so that it must be entered again
|
||
|
|
before any sensitive information can be stored or retrieved. This is useful
|
||
|
|
if you are going to leave your computer unattended for a period of time.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>To log out of your master password:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the Tools menu and choose Password Manager.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Select Log Out from the submenu.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Return to beginning of
|
||
|
|
section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="what_to_do_if_you_forget_your_master_password">What to Do If You Forget
|
||
|
|
Your Master Password</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>If you forget your master password and you have chosen to encrypt sensitive
|
||
|
|
data (see <a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Encrypting
|
||
|
|
Stored Sensitive Information</a>), you won't be able to access any of
|
||
|
|
the stored password and form data that it protects (assuming you have turned
|
||
|
|
on encryption). Your master password is your most important password. Make
|
||
|
|
sure you remember it or record it in a safe place.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>As a last resort, it's possible to reset your master password if you
|
||
|
|
are sure you can't remember it. However, resetting your master password
|
||
|
|
permanently erases all the web passwords, email passwords, and form data
|
||
|
|
saved on your behalf by Password Manager and Form Manager. You will also lose
|
||
|
|
all your personal certificates associated with the
|
||
|
|
<a href="glossary.xhtml#software_security_device">Software Security
|
||
|
|
Device</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Before taking this drastic step, read
|
||
|
|
<a href="passwords_help.xhtml#reset_master_password">Reset Master
|
||
|
|
Password</a>.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>If you are sure you can't remember or retrieve your master password,
|
||
|
|
follow these instructions to reset it:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
|
||
|
|
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Master Passwords. (If no
|
||
|
|
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
|
||
|
|
the list.)</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Click Reset Master Password.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>In the Reset Master Password dialog box, click Reset.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>[<a href="#encrypting_stored_sensitive_information">Return to beginning of
|
||
|
|
section</a>]</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h1 id="managing_images">Managing Images</h1>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>If you wish, you can choose not to download any images when you browse the
|
||
|
|
web. This greatly restricts what you can view online, but may be helpful if
|
||
|
|
you have a slow connection and wish to shorten the time it takes web pages to
|
||
|
|
load.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>You can also control how frequently animated images repeat their animation,
|
||
|
|
or turn off animation completely.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>The next section describes how to control these image settings. The default
|
||
|
|
settings allow all images to be accepted and allow them to repeat their
|
||
|
|
animation.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h2 id="images">Privacy & Security Preferences - Images</h2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>This section describes how to set preferences for images. To view the
|
||
|
|
preference settings for images:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ol>
|
||
|
|
<li>Open the <span class="mac">&brandShortName;</span>
|
||
|
|
<span class="noMac">Edit</span> menu and choose Preferences.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li>Under the Privacy & Security category, click Images. (If no
|
||
|
|
subcategories are visible, double-click Privacy & Security to expand
|
||
|
|
the list.)</li>
|
||
|
|
</ol>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h3 id="image_acceptance_policy">Image Acceptance Policy</h3>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Image Acceptance preferences allow you to control whether and where
|
||
|
|
Navigator displays images:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Do not load any images</strong>: Select this option if you do not
|
||
|
|
want Navigator to display images.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Accept images that come from the originating server
|
||
|
|
only</strong>: Select this option if you do not want to load images from
|
||
|
|
third-party sites.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Accept all images</strong>: Select this option if you want
|
||
|
|
Navigator to display all images. (This option is selected by default.)</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<h3>Animated images should loop</h3>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>These settings control how many times animated images repeat their
|
||
|
|
animation:</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<ul>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>As many times as the image specifies</strong>: Select this if you
|
||
|
|
want image animation to repeat as many times as specified within each
|
||
|
|
image. (This option is selected by default.)</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Once</strong>: Select this if you want image animation to occur
|
||
|
|
once, overriding the number of times specified within each image.</li>
|
||
|
|
<li><strong>Never</strong>: Select this if you do not want image
|
||
|
|
animation.</li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>Copyright © 2003-2010 The Mozilla Foundation.</p>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
</body>
|
||
|
|
</html>
|