Tuesday, July 14, 2020

How to clear cookies from Emacs

In Emacs, you can generally select a buffer and delete using the command C-x h C-w .

However, the cookie buffer .%* *url cookies* is read-only and you cannot delete it from inside of Emacs.






































Here's how to delete EWW Browser cookies from Emacs.

Paste this into your into Run [WIN+R], to open the Emacs cookie folder or in Windows Explorer

%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\.emacs.d\url


cache
cookies
cookies~

Delete cookies and cookies~ files. You can blow of the cache folder, if you need to. It contains downloaded images from pages you visit. It may contain 1x1 .GIF trackers. 


Here's how to install Emacs and browse
https://metadataconsulting.blogspot.com/2020/04/How-to-get-a-Text-Browser-for-Windows-7-10-Surf-the-web-in-text-only-no-ads.html

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