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A Master Guide: How to Enable Cookies on Your Web Browser

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Overview 

What are cookies? Cookies are little pieces of data that can be stored on your web browser, used for visitor tracking purposes. Cookies cannot access your system or retrieve information that isn't already showing on your web browser. Cookies cannot access your hard drive or send information about your computer system. Cookies are just simply a data storage system.

Supersite 3.0, Portales, Portails, and Senderos PRIME sites will operate more efficiently if your internet browser has certain preferences set. For all supported browsers, “Cookies” must be accepted, Security should be set initially to “medium” or “default” and JavaScript should be enabled.

Enable Cookies MS EDGE

Version 99.0.1150.36

To enable MS EDGE cookies follow these steps:

  1. Open the Microsoft Edge.
  2. Click the "Settings and more" button
  3. Select the "Settings" menu item
  4. Click on the "Cookies and Site permissions" menu item
  5. Then Click on the “Manage and delete cookies and site data” menu item
  6. Make sure that “Allow sites to save and read cookie data” is enabled
The settings you change take effect immediately, and when you're finished changing the options you can simply close the Settings tab that contained these options and resume browsing.

 

Enable Cookies CHROME

Version 99.0.4844.51

To enable Chrome cookies follow these steps:

  1. At the top right, click More More icon.
  2. Select the "Settings"
  3. Under "Privacy and security," click Cookies and other site data.
  4. Select the Allow all cookies option.

The settings you change take effect immediately, and when you're finished changing the options you can simply close the Settings tab that contained these options and resume browsing.

 

Enable Cookies FIREFOX

Version 98.0

To enable Firefox cookies follow these steps:

  1. Click the menu button ☰. It's in the top-right corner of the window. A drop-down menu will appear.
     
  2. Click the "Settings" menu item
    • After you've clicked the menu button, the Firefox menu appears; one of the items in it is Options (note: on macOS it is called Preferences).
  3. Click the "Privacy & Security" menu item
    • The major sections are shown as menu items up the left of the Options/Preferences window. Click the Privacy & Security item.
  4. Under "Enhanced Tracking Protection" select the "Standard" option.
    • If you have custom selected make sure that the cookies check-mark is unchecked.
  5. Make sure "Cookies" is enabled and the drop-down is set to "Cross-site and social media trackers"

The settings you change take effect immediately, and when you're finished changing the options you can simply close the Settings tab that contained these options and resume browsing.

 

Enable Cookies SAFARI

Version 15.3

Safari blocks third party cookies by default. To enable Safari cookies follow steps bellow:

  1. Click the "Safari" menu
    • Make sure you have a Safari window open and active; you will see the "Safari" menu in the top left of your screen. Click it and it will expand to show Safari specific options.
  2. Click the "Preferences" menu item
  3. Click the "Privacy" tab
    • The Safari Preferences screen has a number of sections, indicated by the various options along the top of the screen (General/Tabs/AutoFill etc). Click the Privacy item to see privacy related options.
  4. Choose your preferred Cookies and tracking settings
    • On the Privacy Preferences tab, you will see the "Website tracking:" and Cookies and website data:" checkboxes.
  5. Now you can choose what cookies you would like to enable. The safest way is to enable cookies from sites you have visited.
    • If you click the Manage Website Data button, you'll see a list of website domains which have stored data on your computer.
  6. Restart Safari.

 

Enable Cookies SAFARI via iPAD (iOS 13).

  1. On your iPad, tap the "Settings" icon on the home screen.

  2. Return to the Home Screen by pressing the round button underneath the screen.

  3. Scroll the Settings sidebar until you can see the Safari icon.

  4. Tap the "Safari" menu option.

  5. Go to the Privacy & Security section.

  6. Scroll down and choose your Cookies preference.

  7. Disable the "Block all cookies" option.

  8. You have configured your Cookies settings.

NOTE: Turn off the "Block Pop-Ups" located in the General section from the Safari settings.

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