How to Manage Cookies With Camino

The free Camino Web browser for Mac computers allows users to freely manage cookies. Cookies are pieces of information stored on your computer that help you quickly access Web sites. Camino users may elect to disallow cookies entirely, choose to allow them on a case-by-case basis or set their own parameters.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Mac computer with Internet access
• Camino Web browser

Configure Camino's Cookies Settings

1. Sign onto the Internet using the Camino Web browser.
2. Select "Preferences" from the Camino toolbar at the top of the page.
3. Click on the "Privacy" tab to access the cookies settings.
4. Click on the button next to "Accept cookies from any site" for the most seamless access to Web sites.
5. Choose the 'Accept Cookies Only from Sites You Visit' button if you wish to block cookies from third party Web sites such as advertisements.
6. Pick the 'Don't accept cookies from any site' button for the highest security. Keep in mind that you will be unable to view some Web pages if you block all cookies.
7. Require Camino to ask your permission to allow cookies on a case-by-case basis by clicking on the 'Ask before accepting each cookie' button.

Tune Your General Cookies Preferences

8. Access the cookies settings Camino page as described above.
9. Click on the ‘Show cookies" button. This will show you all of the cookies you have allowed to be stored on your computer.
10. Delete any cookies listed that you no longer wish to allow.
11. Go back to the cookies settings page.
12. Select the "Edit exceptions list" button. This will show you the list of sites you have chosen to always ban and those you choose to always allow.
13. Manage your exceptions list by either removing Web sites from a list or adding them to a list. These are exceptions to the general preferences you set earlier.

Delete Saved Cookies

14. Access the Camino menu.
15. Choose the 'Empty cache' button. This will remove all of the saved information from recently viewed Web pages.

Tips & Warnings

• Camino runs on Mac OS X operating systems. You will need 50 MB available hard drive space and 128 MB available RAM for Camino to function.
• You can download Camino at the Camino Home Page (see Resources below).
• Find additional help with the Camino Cookies Help Page (see Resources below).
• Take advantage of Camino's Annoyance Blocking security feature. It will disable all plugins and flash animations.
• These steps were made for the Camino version 1.0.4. so they may not completely apply to other versions of Camino.