What Are Cookies in Firefox?
What are cookies in Firefox?
✍: FYIcenter.com
A cookie is a small amount of information sent by a Web server
to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time
it accesses that server. Cookies are used for authenticating, tracking,
and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences
and the contents of their electronic shopping carts. The term "cookie"
is derived from "magic cookie", a well-known concept in computing
which inspired both the idea and the name of cookies.
A cookie consists of a cookie name and cookie value. If you login to a Website using Firefox with a user name like, "Frank", that Website may decide to create a cookie named as "UserName" with a value of "Frank". Firefox will the cookie in memory, and send it back to the Website, each time your click a link on the Website.
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