MyBB Documentation

How to clear your cookies

The 1.6 Documentation is no longer maintained and some information may be outdated.

The MyBB 1.6 series reached end of life on October 1, 2015.

This means there will be no more security or maintenance releases for these series and forums running these versions of MyBB may be at risk of unfixed security issues. All administrators are strongly encouraged to upgrade their forums to the latest release of MyBB as soon as possible.

If you are having problems logging in, logging out, or if you have just changed your board's cookie settings you may need to clear your cookies before you can login/logout to your forum. If not listed here, you can find information on how to clear cookies in your browser here.

Contents

Internet Explorer

  1. Click on the Tools menu, and click on Internet Options.
  2. In the General tab, and in the Temporary Internet Files category, click Delete Cookies....
  3. Click Ok.

Mozilla Firefox

  1. Click on the Tools menu, and click on Options.
  2. Click on the Privacy tab.
  3. Click on Cookies in the submenu.
  4. Click on the Clear Cookies Now button.
    • Alternatively, you can click View Cookies and selectively remove cookies.

Opera

  1. Click on the Tools menu, and click Delete private data...
  2. Click on Details > and make sure the Delete All Cookies and Delete Temporary Cookies options are checked (you can uncheck the others if you like).
  3. Click on the Delete button.

Safari

  1. Click on the Edit menu, and click Reset Safari.
  2. Make sure the Remove all cookies option is selected (you can uncheck the others if you like).
  3. Click on the Reset button.

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