In the General tab, underneath “Browsing history”, click on Settings. To view cookies in IE 11, click on the gear icon, then Internet options. So to view cookies, you need to know where the files are kept, find them in Windows File Explorer, open the folder, and sort the contents. The deep dark secret 2 is that cookies are simply stored as files on your computer.
The next time your browser requests a page from that same domain, all cookies that were last provided by that domain are included with the page request. The good news is that it’s still easy to do.Īs a refresher: a cookie is a collection of data – typically small – provided by a web page, downloaded by your browser, and stored on your machine. While it hasn’t changed a lot, what used to be moderately difficult to discover and easy to do now seems totally obscure. I had to go searching to figure this one out.
