Enabling Cookies in your Web Browser               

This web site requires that 'cookies' be enabled in your browser. This website uses uses temporary session cookies that hold session sign in information and are deleted when you close your browser. These cookies enable you to perform a variety of tasks in a single session without having to provide your password over and over again.

The following instructions and links are provided to help you enable cookies in your Browser.

(derived from http://www.columbia.edu/acis/email/cubmail/cookies.html - 12/03)

Mozilla Firefox

  1. Click on Tools in the menu at the top of the browser.
  2. Select Options from the drop-down menu.
  3. The Options window will appear. In the Options window, click on Privacy.
  4. Click on the Cookies tab.
  5. Check Allow sites to set Cookies.
  6. Check for the originating site only.
  7. Click the OK button at the bottom of the window. You may have to close and reopen your browser for these changes to take effect.

Internet Explorer 6.x

Option 1 (accept all first party cookies):
  1. From Internet Explorer's Tool drop-down menu, choose Internet Options.
  2. Click on Privacy and select Advanced.
  3. Check Override automatic cookie handling.
  4. Select the radio button Accept for first party cookies.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Click OK again in the Internet Options screen. You will need to close and reopen your browser for this to take effect.
  7. Microsoft Cookie Help: Navigate in your browser to Help -> Contents and Index -> Index -> cookies -> changing setting
Option 2: (accept cookies from a specific server only)
  1. From Internet Explorer's Tool drop-down menu, choose Internet Options.
  2. Click on Privacy and in the section under "Web Sites", click on Edit. This will bring up the "Per Site Privacy Actions" window where you can override the cookie/privacy session for a specific site.
  3. Enter the name of the website (www.nacarbon.org) in the "Address of the Web site" text box.
  4. Select Allow. You may need to close and reopen your browser for this to take effect.

Cached May Cause Dynamic Pages Not to Display Current Version

Internet Explorer "caches" (saves a local copy of) dynamically generated pages. The browser will prefer the locally cached page to that which is being dynamically generated. To always view the latest version of a page:

  1. Navigate to Tools / Internet Options.
  2. In the Temporary Internet Files section, click on the Settings button. This will display the Settings screen.
  3. You will see four radio buttons under Check for newer versions of stored pages. Select Every Visit to the Page.
  4. Click the OK buttons. You may need to close and reopen your browser for this to take effect.

Netscape 4.7x

  1. From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
  2. Click the Advanced category.
  3. Click the radio button Accept all cookies.
  4. Click OK. You may need to close and reopen your browser for this to take effect.
  5. Netscape 4.7 Cookie Help: Navigate in your browser to Help -> Help Contents -> Index -> cookies -> Handling cookies

Netscape 6.x

  1. Click Edit on the Toolbar
  2. Click Preferences.
  3. Click the Privacy and Security category and expand the list to show the subcategories. Click cookies.
  4. Three options are diplayed. Click on either Enable all cookies. or Enable cookies for the originating website only.
  5. If you want to be notified when a website tries to set a cookie, select "Warn me before accepting a cookie.
  6. You may need to close and reopen your browser for this to take effect.
  7. Netscape 6.2 Cookie Help: Navigate in your browser to Help -> Help and Support Center -> Index -> Cookie Manager

Netscape 7.xx, Mozilla

  1. From the Edit menu, choose Preferences. (In MacOS X, choose Preferences from the Netscape or Mozilla menu.)
  2. Select the arrow next to Privacy and Security.
  3. Click the Cookies category.
  4. Click the radio button Enable all cookies.
  5. Click OK. You will need to close and reopen your browser for this to take effect.
  6. Netscape 7.x Cookie Help: Navigate in your browser to Help -> Help and Support Center -> Index -> cookies

Opera 7.11

  1. From the File menu, choose Preferences.
  2. Click the Privacy category.
  3. Check Enable Cookies.
  4. From the Normal Cookies drop-down menu, select Automatically accept all cookies.
  5. From the Third Part drop-down menu, select Automatically accept all cookies.
  6. Click OK. You may need to close and reopen your browser for this to take effect.

Safari

  1. From the Safari Menu, choose Preferences.
  2. Click the Security icon.
  3. In the Accept Cookies: selection box, chose Always or Only from sites you navigate to.
  4. You may need to close and reopen your browser for this to take effect.

Camino

  1. Select Preferences from the Camino menu.
  2. Click on the Privacy icon.
  3. Click Enable cookies.
  4. Close the Preferences by clicking in the window's close box.
  5. You may need to close and reopen your browser for this to take effect.

AOL

  1. For specific on AOL cookie settings, please see http://webmaster.info.aol.com/cookieguide.html

More on how cookies work...

Cookies are essential for maintaining a secure, private and unique sign in session. More information on how cookies work can be found at the following links:

http://www.cookiecentral.com/content.phtml?area=2&id=1
http://www.aboutcookies.org/cookiefaq.html
http://webmaster.info.aol.com/cookieguide.html
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/email/cubmail/cookies.html

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