How can I quickly clear cookies for a specific site using Safari for Mac?

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Solution 1

Clearing a Specific Cookie on Safari: Safari makes you do a little more mousework to get to the listing of cookies in the system, and you have to specify which you want to remove. To get started, go to the preferences menu, and open the “Security” Options. Partway down the page is a button labeled “Show Cookies.” Click this.

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Once you have clicked the “Show Cookies” button, you will be shown a listing of all of the cookies your browser has stored, along with a handy search box. Type the current domain name into this search to see a listing of cookies set by the current site. From here, you can select and delete the cookies.

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Solution 2

As @user6297 says in his comment, the above answer no longer works as of El Capitan. You now need to go to Preferences > Privacy > Details as shown in the image. Note that the Details button might take a moment to appear.

Then enter the domain in the Search box, select the item you want to remove, and click Remove.

Solution 3

use Safari Cookies Tool

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Frank Krueger

I am an engineer living in Seattle. I have been programming for about 15 years. I started out with video game hacking with the Code Alliance. Moved on to embedded systems development in an R&D group at GM. Did way too much graphics (3D) programming. Then did a lot of network programming for large data centers. Was forced to get my Master's in Electrical Engineering. Got into compiler and interpreter development. Spent some time coding at Microsoft. Moved on a year later to start my own company creating control systems and web apps. I love programming and have spent way too much time learning too many languages, frameworks, APIs, paradigms, and operating systems.

Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

Frank Krueger over 1 year

I know I can "Reset Safari". I know I can go to Cookies from Preferences and search for a site's cookies and delete those. But is there a faster/easier way to just clear cookies for one site (preferably one that I'm already navigated to)?
Ivo Flipse almost 15 years

Darn I realize you're looking for something simpler probably...
rockit almost 15 years

Nothing bad with a complete answer, really. :)
Ivo Flipse almost 15 years

Oh Safari doesn't support plugins, that's going to make it hard...
Assembler almost 15 years

Note, the Remove All button will do the same thing, once you've entered the domain into the search box.
Dan Rosenstark over 13 years

this even works on chrome +1
user6297 over 8 years

Safari 9 on El Capitan (OS X 10.11) no longer has this feature in the same place or the same way. Now you go to Safari / Preferences / Privacy and under the Remove All Website Data... button there's a small Details... button. When you click on that you can see the list of all domain names for which there are Cache, Cookies, and/or Local Storage saved. When you select that domain you can clear all of that data at once or not. There's no way to see individual cookies from Preferences any more, nor a way to remove only one. But at least you can still do this for a single site.
aljabear about 3 years

the Safari Cookies tool is apparently dead.