Web Browser: How to Clear Cookies and Cache

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This service is for faculty, staff, and students.

Cookies are files created by sites you visit. They make your online experience easier by saving browsing data.

The cache remembers parts of pages, like images, to help them open faster during your next visit.

Many new or intermittent issues or unwanted behaviors on websites and in browsers can be quickly and easily resolved by clearing your browser's cookies and cache. When you use a browser it saves some information from websites in its cache and cookies. Clearing them fixes certain problems, like loading or formatting issues on sites.

How to Clear the Cookies and Cache in your Browser

On a PC or Mac Computer

On a mobile device

After clearing your cookies and cache it is always a good idea to close and re-open your browser to be sure that you have a fresh browsing session.

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