Details button missing from Safari Preferences Privacy Pane

Trying to manually manage cookies in Safari, but the "Details" button is missing from the Privacy pane in Safari Preferences more often than not. All I can do is Remove All Website Data ... which is a pain in the butt when reconnecting to many sites with dual-form authentication (banks, etc.).


Any suggestions on how to fix?


OS X El Capitan 10.11.5

Safari 9.1.1



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MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on Jun 4, 2016 6:03 PM

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Sep 22, 2016 9:20 PM in response to Steven Sheffield

You can select Develop > Empty Caches. This all thin out the list considerably leaving the cookies. However, there is a downside (bug?) with Safari 10. You will lose your Web Page Icons and everything will have the generic blue world icon. To get around this, and before emptying the caches, go to Library > Safari and make a copy of the three Webpageicons files at the bottom of the list. When done clearing the cache replace the three Webpageicons files with the copies. This will give you back your icons.

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Details button missing from Safari Preferences Privacy Pane

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