Managing Your Cookies and Passwords

Epiphany stores your cookies and passwords in the Personal Data Manager which can be accessed by choosing Edit ▸ Personal Data.

7.1. Managing Cookies

Cookies allow web pages to store pieces of information which can then be accessed by the site when you next visit.

In Personal Data Manager, you can view the cookies stored on your computer and the details contained within them. You can also delete cookies.

  • To view the contents of a cookie, select its entry in the list and press Properties.
  • To delete cookies, select all the cookies you want to delete, and press the Remove button.

The cookies properties window shows you the following details:

Content

The content of the cookie.

Path

The path within the domain for which the cookie is valid.

Send for

When Any type of connection, the cookie can be sent to any server. When Encrypted connections only, the cookie will only be sent to secure servers.

Expires

The date and time at which the cookie is no longer valid.

7.2. Managing Passwords

Many web sites require you to log in using a username and password to gain access to some or all of the site. Epiphany can remember the passwords for you so that you can quickly login in future.

In Personal Data Manager, you can view the sites for which passwords have been stored, and delete them.

  • To delete passwords, select all the entries you want to delete, and press the Remove button.
  • The password content is normally hidden to protect your privacy. You can use the Show passwords toggle to reveal previously saved passwords.

7.3. Clearing your personal data

Epiphany let you clear all your personal data it remembered in an easy way.

The Clear All dialog, which can be accessed by clicking on the Clear All... on the bottom right corner of the Personal Data Manager, let you specify the items of your personal data you want to clean. For details see: విభాగము 7.1 ― Managing Cookies, విభాగము 7.2 ― Managing Passwords and విభాగము 6.1 ― Overview of the Epiphany History System. Note that the operation is not undoable, and by clicking on Clear you will lose all the personal data of the selected kind.