How do I clear my browser cache of cookies and temp files?

Question

for some reason, every time I go to www.yahoo.com, I get redirected to m.www.yahoo.com

so I asked on YA and someone said its something Yahoo is trying out on some people, and to restore the original yahoo home page I need to clear my browser cache of cookies and temp files.

does that sound right? how do i do that?

Answer 1

If you have Mozilla you click Tools and press Clear Private Data.



Internet Explorer - Tools - Internet options - General Tab. Click delete under browsing history

Answer 2

as Taz says you can also go into windows directory, look for a folder called "prefetch" delete the contents , there all your cookies, taking up space on hard drive , Ccleaner will delete old prefetch files, system Mechanics 9 will do all your houskeeping too, if you not confident, then don't do it. if your useinf IE 8 tools>internet options> tick all the boxes and delete, don't save private data or passwords in browser. Using firefox, tools>internet options, save data for 0 days or when i close firefox delete history, delete private data, want to save frequented sites use bookmark or favorites?

Answer 3

On both Firefox and Internet Explorer it's located on your file toolbar at the top. Go into Tools then either "Clear Private Data" for Firefox or "Delete Browsing History" for IE