Persistent cookies store information on your computer for longer periods of time.

The normal save dialog box will appear and you can choose where to store the document on your local computer.

Maps, core libraries, and a lot of other information are not stored on your computer.

Persistent cookies are stored on your computer for longer periods.

Persistent cookies store information on your computer for longer periods of time and across multiple sessions.

Sent primarily by the biggest commercial Web sites, cookies get stored on your computer.

You may not want or need to keep everything that is stored on your computer.

And the point is, you are enabling that to be stored on your computer by availing yourself of this system.

The information is not permanently stored on your computer.

But cookies are still actual data stored on your computer.