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Using the Cookie Manager

A cookie is a small amount of information on your computer that is used by some web sites. For a brief overview, see What Are Cookies and How Do They Work?

Before loading a web page that uses cookies, your browser handles the page's cookies by doing two things:

- Accepts or rejects any requests by the web site to set (store) one or more cookies on your computer.
- Accepts or rejects any requests by the web site to read cookies it previously stored on your computer. A web site can't actually read cookies or any other data on your computer—instead, your browser gets the cookies and sends them back to the web site.

In this section: Enabling & Disabling Cookies Managing Cookies Site-By-Site Viewing Cookies Removing Cookies Setting Privacy Levels Cookie Manager Settings

## Enabling & Disabling Cookies

You can specify how cookies should be handled by setting your cookie preferences and by using the Cookie Manager.

To change your cookie preferences:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, choose Cookies. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
3. Set your cookie preferences.

For more information about the effect of each setting, see Privacy & Security Preferences - Cookies.

## Managing Cookies Site-By-Site

To control cookies on a site-by-site basis:

1. Open the Tasks menu, choose Privacy & Security, and then choose Cookie Manager.
2. Choose "Unblock Cookies from this Site" or "Block Cookies from this Site."

Alternatively, if you have selected "Warn me before storing a cookie" in Privacy & Security Preferences - Cookies, you will be warned (while browsing) that a web site is asking to set a cookie. When you see such a warning, you can click Yes to allow or No to deny the cookie. You can also select the option for your browser to "Remember this decision."

If you select "Remember this decision," you will not be warned the next time that site tries to set or modify a cookie, and your "yes" or "no" response will still be in effect.

If you wish to change a remembered response later, use Cookie Manager to edit your list of automatically stored cookies.

To stop automatically accepting cookies from a site:

1. Open the Tasks menu, choose Privacy & Security, then choose Cookie Manager.
2. Choose View Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.
3. Click the Cookie Sites tab. The web sites for which you have allowed or denied cookies are listed.
4. Click to select the site from which you no longer want to accept cookies, and then click Remove Cookie. The next time you visit that site, you will be warned if the site attempts to set a cookie.

## Viewing Cookies

To view detailed information about cookies:

1. Open the Tasks menu, choose Privacy & Security, and then choose Cookie Manager.
2. Choose View Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.
3. To see details for a particular cookie, click it.

For more information about the information displayed, see Stored Cookies.

## Removing Cookies

Important: To remove cookies, follow the steps in this section. Do not try to edit the cookies file on your computer.

To remove one or more cookies from your computer:

1. Open the Tasks menu, choose Privacy & Security, and then choose Cookie Manager.
2. Choose View Stored Cookies from the submenu. The Cookie Manager window opens with a list of all the cookies stored on your computer.
3. Select one or more cookies and click Remove Cookie, or click Remove All Cookies.

To prevent the removed cookies from being reaccepted later, click the checkbox labeled "Don't allow removed cookies to be reaccepted later." Click OK when you're through.

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## Setting Privacy Levels

A web site's privacy policy tells you what kind of information the site collects, to whom it gives that information, and how it uses the information. Some web sites publish privacy policies that determine how your browser will handle cookies according to the privacy level you set.

To set the privacy level you want your browser to enforce for all web sites:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, choose Cookies. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
3. Select the option labeled "Enable cookies based on privacy levels."
4. Click View.
5. In the privacy level dialog box, select the level of privacy you want.

Your browser will handle cookies according to the settings under Cookie Acceptance Policy. For the low, medium, and high options, these settings are standardized.

"First party cookies" are cookies set by the site you are visiting. "Third party cookies," also known as foreign cookies, are set by a sites other than the one you are viewing, and are therefore generally considered more dangerous.

When the Custom option is set, you can define your own privacy level. For each type of site listed under Cookie Acceptance Policy, and for each type of cookie, you can set whether you want the Cookie Manager to accept the cookie permanently, reject it permanently, or accept it just for the current session (that is, until you exit the browser).

For more details, see Privacy Levels.

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Cookie Manager Settings

This section describes how to set your cookie preferences and control other aspects of cookie handling.

For step-by-step descriptions of various tasks related to cookies, see Using the Cookie Manager.

In this section: Privacy & Security Preferences - Cookies Stored Cookies Cookie Sites Privacy Levels

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Privacy & Security Preferences - Cookies

This section describes how to use the Cookies preferences panel. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, click Cookies. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)

Cookies help web sites keep track of information for you, such as the contents of your on-line shopping cart or which cities' weather you want to know about. For a brief overview, see What Are Cookies and How Do They Work?

You can choose one of these options:

- Disable cookies: Choose this to refuse all cookies.

- Enable cookies for the originating web site only: Choose this if you don't want to accept or return foreign cookies. Cookies received through email (when the message contains a web page) are treated as foreign cookies.
- Enable cookies based on privacy levels: Choose this if you handle cookies based on privacy levels. If you select this option, click the View button to set the privacy level you prefer.
- Enable all cookies: Choose this to permit all web sites to set cookies on your computer and receive them back during subsequent visits. Note: If you select this option and later choose to disable all cookies, you may still have old cookies stored on your computer (though no new ones will be set).

If you enable cookies, you can also select the following preferences:

- Warn me before storing a cookie: Select this if you want Cookie Manager to warn you each time a web site asks to store a cookie on your computer.
- Limit maximum lifetime of cookies to: Select this if you want to limit the length of time any cookie can remain on your computer. Then choose one of these options:
  - current session: Choose this to delete the cookie the next time you exit your browser.
  - XX days: Choose this to specify cookie lifetime in days, then type the number of days.

Click these buttons to get more information about your stored cookies and the ways they are used by your browser:

- View Stored Cookies: Click this to view information about the cookies currently stored on your computer.
- More Information: Click this for a detailed explanation of cookies and related privacy issues.

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Stored Cookies

This section describes how to use the Stored Cookies tab of the Cookie Manager. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, click Cookies. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
3. Click View Stored Cookies.

The Stored Cookies tab lists all the cookies stored on your computer and the sites they belong to. When you select a cookie in this list, information about that cookie appears:

Item | Explanation
Name | The name assigned to the cookie by its originator.
Information | A string of characters contining the information a web site tracks for you. It might contain a user key or name by which you are identified to the web site, information about your interests, and so forth.

Host or Domain

Indicates whether the cookie is a host cookie or a domain cookie and provides information about the host or domain.

A host cookie is sent back, during subsequent visits, only to the server that set it. A server is a computer on the Internet. A web site resides on one or more servers.

A domain cookie is sent back to any site that's in the same domain as the site that set it. A site's domain is the part of its URL that contains the name of an organization, business, or school—such as netscape.com or washington.org.

Path | This is the file pathway. If a cookie comes from a particular part of a web site, instead of the main page, a path is given.
Server Secure | This indicates whether the server that originally sent the cookie uses a "secure" (HTTPS) connection. When this field is "Yes" it means that the browser checks the connection whenever the server asks for a cookie and will not send it unless the connection is encrypted.
Expires | The date and time at which the cookie will be deactivated. The browser regularly removes expired cookies from your computer.

To remove cookies, click one of these buttons:

- Remove Cookie: Removes the selected cookie or cookies from the list.
- Remove All Cookies: Removes all cookies from the list.

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Cookie Sites

This section describes how to use the Cookie Sites tab of the Cookie Manager. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, click Cookies. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
3. Click View Stored Cookies.
4. Click the Cookie Sites tab.

When the "Warn me before storing a cookie" option is selected in the Privacy & Security Preferences - Cookies, you will be warned (while browsing) each time a web site requests permission to set a cookie. The warning allows you to accept or deny the cookie. The warning also allows you to select an option for your browser to "Remember this decision."

The Cookie Sites tab of the Cookie Manager lists the sites for which your decisions have been remembered, and what your decisions were. It also allows you to remove sites from the list, so that the Cookie Manager no longer remembers your decisions about them:

- Remove Site: Removes the selected site or sites from the list.
- Remove All Cookies: Removes all sites from the list.

Once you've removed a site from this list, Cookie Manager remembers nothing about it. When the "Warn me before storing a cookie" option is selected in the Cookies preferences panel, you will be again be warned when the web site you removed from this list requests permission to set a cookie.

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Privacy Levels

This section describes how to use the Privacy Levels window. If you're not already viewing it, follow these steps:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, click Cookies. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
3. Select the radio button labeled "Enable Cookies Based on Privacy Levels."
4. Click View.

In this section: Level of Privacy Cookie Acceptance Policy

### Level of Privacy

The level of privacy you set here determines how your browser treats cookies according to privacy policies published by some web sites and the settings displayed under Cookie Acceptance Policy for first party and third party cookies.

"First party cookies" are cookies set by the site you are visiting. "Third party cookies," also known as foreign cookies, are set by a site other than the one you are viewing, and are considered more dangerous than first party cookies.

You can select one of the following privacy levels:

- low: Select this if you're not too concerned about cookies. When this setting is selected, the Cookie Manager accepts all first party cookies permanently, without regard for a site's privacy policy. It also accepts all third party cookies—but, in the case of sites that may be collecting information without your consent, only until you exit the browser.
- medium: Select this if you don't want to accept third party cookies set by sites that may be collecting personally identifiable information without your consent.
- high: Select this if you want to accept only cookies set by sites that explicitly ask for your consent when they collect personally identifiable information.
- custom: Select this only if you want to set your own custom Cookie Acceptance Policy. The default settings for "custom" are the same as for "high." You can modify them by selecting from the drop-down menus in the bottom portion of the dialog box.

### Cookie Acceptance Policy

If you select the "custom" level of privacy in the top portion of the Privacy Levels dialog box, you can choose from three different settings in each of the eight categories shown in the bottom portion. You can choose one of these options for each category:

- Accept: Causes Cookie Manager to accept permanently all cookies in the category.
- Session: Causes Cookie Manager to accept all cookies in the category for the current session only—that is, until you exit the browser.
- Reject: Causes Cookie Manager to reject permanently all cookies in the category.

There are four categories for each of the two types of cookies shown:

- Site has no privacy policy: This kind of site does not publish any kind of privacy policy. There is no way of knowing what kinds of information such sites collect or what they do with it. In general, it's safest to reject cookies set by such sites, esecially third-party cookies.
- Site collects personally identifiable information without your consent: This kind of site publishes a privacy policy, but does not ask your permission when they collect information about your online activities. If you are concerned about such information being collected without your knowledge, you should reject cookies from such sites, especially third-party cookies.
- Site collects personally identifiable information with only your implicit consent: This kind of site collects information about you based on your privacy level settings, but without asking you explicitly each time it does so
- Site does not collect personally identifiable information without your explicit consent: This kind of site is relatively less dangerous, since you are warned, and given a chance to reject the request, each time such a site attempts to collect information about you. As for the other types of sites, third-party cookies are considered more dangerous than first party cookies.

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Using the Password Manager

Many web sites require you to type a user name and password before you can enter the site. For instance, personalized pages and web sites containing your financial information require you to log in.

The user name and password you use at a particular site can be read by the site's administrator. If this concerns you, you may wish to use a different password at every site with which you register. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to remember every single password you've ever used.

Password Manager can help you by storing your user names and passwords on your computer's hard disk, and entering them for you automatically when you visit such sites.

In this section: Using Password Manager to Remember User Names and Passwords Entering User Names and Passwords Automatically Turning Password Manager On and Off Viewing and Managing Stored Passwords Password Settings

## Using Password Manager to Remember User Names and Passwords

When Password Manager is turned on, it gives you an opportunity to save usernames and passwords that you enter while using the Internet.

For example, when you log onto your email account or a web site that requries a password, a dialog box appears asking, "Do you want Password Manager to remember this logon?" When you see this dialog box, you can click one of the following buttons:

- Yes: The next time you return to the web site you'll see that your user name and password are already filled in.
- Never for this site: Password Manager will not ask in the future if you want to save your user name and password for that site.
- No: Password Manager won't remember the user name and password, but will ask again the next time you visit the site.

Password Manager saves your user names and passwords on your own computer in a file that's difficult, but not impossible, for an intruder to read. See Encrypting Stored Sensitive Information for information on protecting your stored user names and passwords with encryption technology.

If the Password Manager dialog box described above does not appear when you click Submit after typing your username and password, Password Manager may be turned off. To turn it on, follow the instructions at Turning Password Manager On and Off.

## Entering User Names and Passwords Automatically

If you use Password Manager to remember your user name and password for a web site, the next time you visit the site, Password Manager will automatically fill in your user name and password on the site's log in screen.

## Turning Password Manager On and Off

Password Manager is on by default. To turn it off:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, choose Passwords. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
3. In the Password Manager section, deselect "Remember passwords for sites that require me to log in" to turn Password Manager off.

To turn Password Manager on, follow steps 1 and 2 above, but select the checkbox in step 3 rather than deselecting it.

## Managing Stored Passwords

To see a list of the user names and passwords you have stored:

1. Open the Tasks menu, choose Privacy & Security, and then choose Password Manager.
2. Select View Stored Passwords from the submenu. You see the Password Manager window.
3. Click the Passwords Saved tab. You see a list of all the stored user names. (Passwords are not listed.)

- To remove a user name, click it and then click Remove. The next time you visit the web site, you will be asked to enter your password.
- Click the Passwords Never Saved tab to see a list of the web sites for which you instructed Password Manager never to store user names. To remove a web site from this list, click it and then click Remove. The next time you visit the web site, you will be asked if you want Password Manager to save the user name and password for that site.

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Using the Form Manager

Many web pages contain forms for you to fill out—order forms for online shopping, information databases, and so forth.

Form Manager can save the personal data you enter into online forms, such as your name, address, phone, credit card numbers, and so on. Then, when a web site presents you with a form, Form Manager can fill it in automatically.

In this section: Saving Form Data Filling Out Forms Automatically Turning Off Form Manager Notification Managing Stored Form Data Editing Stored Site Information How Do Web Sites Use My Personal Information? Form Settings

## Saving Form Data

When you fill out an online form, Form Manager normally detects the form and gives you an opportunity to save the personal data you entered into it. Soon, Form Manager will have enough data to begin filling out forms automatically.

There are two ways to save personal data:

- Each time you submit an online form that you've filled out, Form Manager asks if you want the information saved. Click Yes.

  Note that Form Manager prompts you only if its automatic notification feature is turned on. For details, see Form Manager's Automatic Notification Feature.

- After you fill out a form (but before you submit it), open the Edit menu and choose Save Form Data.

When Form Manager asks if you want to save values that you've entered in a form (the first method described above), it gives you three options:

- Yes. Click this button to save the information you entered. In the future, you can automatically fill in a form that requests the same information.
- Never for this site. Click this button to ensure that Form Manager will not ask in the future if you want to save information that you enter in forms at this site.

  You may want to do this if you want to ensure that you'll always have to enter sensitive information manually at a particular sit. You can change your mind later if you like; for details, see Editing Stored Site Information.

- No. Form Manager won't save the information you entered, but will ask again the next time you enter form information at this site.

Form Manager stores your personal data on your own computer in a file that's difficult, but not impossible, for an intruder to read. See Encrypting Stored Sensitive Information for information on protecting your information with encryption technology.

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## Filling Out Forms Automatically

To fill out an online form automatically:

1. Go to the online form you want to fill out.
2. Open the Edit menu and choose Prefill Form.

   Note that the Prefill Form menu item won't be accessible if the Form Manager hasn't yet stored any relevant information.

3. A dialog box called Prefill Form Data appears. This shows exactly what information Form Manager is about to fill in. You can use this dialog box as follows:

- To prevent a field from being filled in automatically, deselect the checkbox beside it.
- To prevent any fields from being filled in automatically, click Cancel.

4. Click OK to confirm your choices. Form Manager then fills in the form as you specified.

For more details on using the Prefill Form Data dialog box, see Prefill Form Data.

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## Turning Off Form Manager Notification

Form Manager is set to prompt you to save information whenever it detects that you have filled out an online form. To stop these messages from appearing on your screen:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, choose Forms. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
3. In the Form Manager section, deselect "Save form data from web pages when completing forms."

Note that deselecting this option turns off the notification feature, but not Form Manager. The form data it may have already collected is still available.

You can still pull down the Edit menu and choose Save Form Data any time you want to save information from a form you've just filled in, or choose Prefill Form to fill in a form automatically.

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## Managing Stored Form Data

To examine or edit personal data that Form Manager has saved:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. From the Privacy & Security category, choose Forms. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
3. Click Manage Stored Form Data.

The Form Manager dialog box for editing data appears. Click the subcategories on the left to view or edit the corresponding data. To view subcategories that aren't visible, double-click a category to expand the list.

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## Editing Stored Site Information

As explained in Saving Form Data, you can choose "Never for this site" when Form Manager prompts you to save data you've entered in a form. Similarly, you can choose not to display the Prefill Form Data dialog box on a site-by-site basis.

Form Manager lets you change your mind about these decisions at any time. To view site-specific information about your saved form data:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. From the Privacy and Security category, choose Forms. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
3. Click Manage Sites.

The Form Manager dialog box for managing sites appears:

- The Forms Never Previewed tab lists the sites for which you've decided not to display the Prefill Form Data dialog box.
- The Forms Never Saved dialog box lists the sites for which you've decided never to save form data.

To remove a site from either list and thus restore the default behavior, select the site and click Remove. For more details, see Form Manager - Sites.

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## How Do Web Sites Use My Personal Information?

If you provide personal information such as your name, phone number, or email address to a web site, it is free to store that information in its database and use it later. A web site might use this information to improve its service to you or target advertising to your interests. A web site could sell the information it has gathered to other companies.

One way to find out how a web site uses the information it gathers is to check its privacy policy.

Before providing personal information on an online form, you must decide whether or not you trust the company—just as you judge whether or not you trust a catalog company before you provide your credit card number on the company's order form.

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Encrypting Stored Sensitive Information

If you use Password Manager or Form Manager to save passwords and personal data, then this sensitive information is stored on your computer in a file that's difficult, but not impossible, for an intruder to read.

If you are not concerned about unauthorized use of your computer, you may not need further security. However, if your computer is in an area where unauthorized people have access to it, it's possible for a determined person to read the file containing your sensitive information.

For a greater degree of security, you may want to protect the file with encryption. Encryption makes it nearly impossible for an unauthorized person to view your stored sensitive information.

In this section: Encrypting Stored Sensitive Information Setting a Master Password Changing Your Master Password Logging Out of Your Master Password What to Do If You Forget Your Master Password

## Turning on Encryption

To turn on encryption for your stored sensitive information:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, choose Passwords. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
3. In the Encrypting versus Obscuring section, select "Use encryption when storing sensitive data."
4. Click OK. If you haven't previously set a master password, a new dialog box appears and leads you through the process of setting it.

## Setting a Master Password

If you choose to encrypt your stored sensitive information, you'll need a master password. With encryption selected, you'll be asked for your master password at least once during a browser session in which you access any of your stored sensitive information.

If you choose encryption, but don't already have a master password, you'll be prompted to create one the first time you try to save or retrieve your sensitive information.

If your master password has not previously been set, you can set it yourself:

1. Open the Tasks menu, choose Privacy & Security, and then choose Password Manager.
2. Select Change Master Password from the submenu. You see the Set Master Password dialog box.
3. Enter your new master password, and retype it to confirm the spelling.
4. Click OK.

Make sure your new password is difficult to guess. For some guidelines, see the online document Choosing a Good Password.

## Changing Your Master Password

To change your master password:

1. Open the Tasks menu, choose Privacy & Security, and then choose Password Manager.
2. Select Change Master Password from the submenu. You see the Set Master Password dialog box.
3. Enter your current master password (if you have previously set one).
4. Enter your new master password, and retype it to confirm the spelling.
5. Click OK.

Make sure your new password is difficult to guess. For some guidelines, see the online document Choosing a Good Password.

## Logging Out of Your Master Password

Normally, you are asked for your master password once during each browser session during which you access any of your stored sensitive information. However, you can log out of your master password so that it must be entered again before any sensitive information can be stored or retrieved. This is useful if you are going to leave your computer unattended for a period of time.

To log out of your master password:

1. Open the Tasks menu, choose Privacy & Security, and then choose Password Manager.
2. Select Log Out from the submenu.

## What to Do If You Forget Your Master Password

If you forget your master password, you won't be able to access any of the stored password and form data that it protects. Your master password is your most important password. Make sure you remember it or record it in a safe place.

As a last resort, it's possible to reset your master password if you are sure you can't remember it. However, resetting your master password permanently erases all the web passwords, email passwords, and form data saved on your behalf by Password Manager and Form Manager. You will also lose all your personal certificates associated with the software security device.

Before taking this drastic action, read Reset Master Password.

If you are sure you can't remember or retrieve your master password, follow these instructions to reset it:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, choose Master Passwords. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
3. Click Reset Master Password.
4. In the Reset Master Password dialog box, click Reset.

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For more information about the Cookie Manager, see Using the Cookie Manager.

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Managing Images

If you wish, you can choose not to download any images when you browse the web. This greatly restricts what you can view online, but may be helpful if you have a slow connection and wish to shorten the time it takes web pages to load.

You can also control how frequently animated images repeat their animation, or turn off animation completely.

The next section describes how to control these image settings.

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Privacy & Security Preferences - Images

This section describes how to set preferences for images. To view the preference settings for images:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, click Images. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)

### Image Acceptance Policy

Image acceptance preferences allow you to control whether Navigator displays images:

- Do not load any images. Select this if you do not want Navigator to display images.
- Accept all images. Select this if you want Navigator to display all images.

### Animated images should loop

These settings control how many times animated images repeat their animation:

- As many times as the image specifies. Select this if you want image animation to repeat as many times as specified within each image.
- Once. Select this if you want image animation to occur once, overriding the number of times specified within each image.
- Never. Select this if you do not want image animation.

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Form Settings

When you fill out an online form, Form Manager normally detects the form and, when you click Submit, gives you an opportunity to save the data you entered.

This section describes the preferences and other settings that control the way Form Manager works.

For step-by-step instructions on using these settings, see Using the Form Manager.

In this section: Privacy & Security Preferences - Forms Form Manager - Data Form Manager - Sites Prefill Form Data

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Privacy & Security Preferences - Forms

This section describes how to use the Forms preferences panel. If you are not already viewing it, follow these steps:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, click Forms. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)

### Form Manager

When you fill out an online form and click Submit, Form Manager normally displays a dialog box that asks if you want it to save the form data you just entered.

If you click Yes at least some of the time, Form Manager will soon have enough data to begin filling out forms automatically.

Form preferences allow you to

- Save form data from web pages when completing forms: Select this checkbox if you want to be asked whether to save form data every time you fill in a new form. If this option is not selected, Form Manager never asks if you want to save form data.

  Note that deselecting this option turns off the notification feature, but not Form Manager. The form data it may have already collected is still available. You can still pull down the Edit menu and choose Save Form Data any time you want to save information from a form you've just filled in, or choose Prefill Form to fill in a form automatically.

- Manage Stored Form Data. Click this button to examine or edit personal data that Form Manager has saved. For details, see Form Manager - Data.
- Manage Sites: Click this button to view site-specific information about your saved form data. For details, see Form Manager - Sites

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Form Manager - Data

This section describes how to use the window that allows you to edit data saved on your behalf by the Form Manager. If you are not already viewing this window, follow these steps:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, click Forms. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
3. Click Manage Stored Form Data.

The Form Manager window for managing stored form data allows you to perform two tasks:

- Category: Double-click a category in the Category column to view its subcategories, and click a subcategory to view its data on the right side of the window. To edit or add to the displayed data, click in a field and type.
- Remove All Saved Data: Click this button to remove all the saved data at once.

For step-by-step instructions on using the Form Manager, see Using the Form Manager.

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Form Manager - Sites

This section describes how to use the dialog box that allows you to edit data saved on your behalf by Form Manager. If you are not already viewing it, follow these steps:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, click Forms. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
3. Click Manage Sites.

The Form Manager window for managing sites has two tabs:

- Forms Never Previewed: Click this tab to view the list of sites for which you selected "Bypass this screen when prefilling this form in the future" after choosing Prefill Form from the Edit menu.

  If you remove an entry from this list, Form Manager will again give you an opportunity to review form data for that site before filling it in.

- Forms Never Saved: Click this tab to view the list of sites for which you selected "Never for this site" in response to the Form Manager's request to store form data.

  If you remove an entry from this list, Form Manager will again ask whether to store form data when you fill in forms at that site (assuming that the main Form Manager notification option has been selected in Privacy & Security Preferences - Forms).

Regardless of which tab you are viewing, you can remove entries from the list as follows:

- Remove: Select one or more entries that you want to remove, then click this button to remove them.
- Remove All: Click this button to remove all the entries for the tab you are viewing.

See the descriptions of each tab above for the consequences of removing entries.

For step-by-step instructions on working with form data, see Using the Form Manager.

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Prefill Form Data

This section describes the window that normally appears when you open the Edit menu and choose Prefill Form Data.

However, the Prefill Form Data menu item is enabled only if you have previously used Form Manager to save some form data and are now viewing a web page that is requesting some of the same data. For step-by-step instructions on working with form data, see Using the Form Manager.

The Prefill Form Data window allows you to perform these actions:

- Click in a field to edit the displayed data: Any changes you make here will be reflected in the data used to fill in this form, but won't change your stored data.
- Select alternative data: Click the arrow on the right side off any field to display a drop-down menu for that field. If you have previously used Form Manager to save alternate information, for example a different mailing address, the available alternates are listed in the menu.
- Check the items that you would like to have prefilled: Only the items with checkmarks beside them will be filled in automatically. When you first open the window, all the items are checked. Click to deselect any that you don't want filled in automatically.
- Bypass this screen when prefilling this form in the future: Select this checkbox to avoid seeing this window the next time you visit this web site. This can be conveninent, for example, if you frequently need to enter the same data at the same web site and don't need to check it every time before Form Manager fills it in for you.

  If you change your mind about this decision, you can restore the Prefill Form Data window for this web site. For details, see Form Manager - Sites.

- View Stored Form Data: Click this button to examine or edit all personal data that Form Manager has saved. For details, see Form Manager - Data.

31 January 2002

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