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Help! My shopping cart is empty even though I added products to my cart.

You most likely have cookies disabled on your browser.

You will need to enable them before you can add products to your cart.

1. How do I find out which browser I am using?
2. How do I download a newer browser?
3. What is a cookie?
4. Are cookies dangerous to my computer?
5. If I have disabled cookies on my browser, then how do I enable them?

1. How do I find out which browser I am using?

Click Help - About Internet Explorer/Netscape/...
Look for the exact number. e.g. Netscape Communicator 4.7.

2. Where can I download a newer browser?

Internet Explorer?
Download Internet Explorer for free here.

Netscape?
Download Netscape for free here.

Firefox?
Download Firefox for free here.

AOL?
Download AOL here. (*AOL is a browser as well as an Internet Service Provider (ISP). After a promotional period there is a monthly charge to use AOL as your ISP.)

3. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a way to store information. It is an HTTP header that consists of a string that gets entered into the memory of your browser. This string contains the domain, path, lifetime, and the value of a variable. If the lifetime of this variable is longer than the time the user spends at the site, then this string is saved in a text file for future reference.

A cookie is a text-only string that gets entered into the memory of your browser. This value of a variable that a website sets. If the lifetime of this value is set to be longer than the time you spend at that site, then this string is saved to file for future reference.

4. Are cookies dangerous to my computer?

NO. A cookie is a simple piece of text. It cannot be used as a virus, and it cannot access your hard drive. Your browser can save cookie values to a file called cookies.txt if it needs to, but that is the limit of the effect on your system.

5. If I have disabled cookies on my browser, then how do I enable them?

For Netscape 4.0 cookies can be enabled here:
Click on Edit
Click on Preferences
Click on Advanced
Click on Accept all cookies

For Internet Explorer 4.0:
Click on View
Click on Internet Options
Click on Security
Click on Cookies
Click on Always accept cookies

For Internet Explorer 5.0:
Click on Tools
Click on Internet Options
Click on Security
Pick Medium

For AOL 4.0:
Click on My AOL
Click on Preferences
Click on WWW
Click on Security
Click on Medium

Cookies are enabled by default, so for most users this will not be a problem.