I don't know anything about cookies but someone gave me this code and now I want to set an expiry to it on every browser reload. So every time someone closes their browser the cookie will reset. <script type="text/javascript"> var days = "365"; function getCookie(c_name) { if (document.cookie.length>0) { c_start=document.cookie.indexOf(c_name + "="); if (c_start!=-1) { c_start=c_start + c_name.length+1; c_end=document.cookie.indexOf(";",c_start); if (c_end==-1) c_end=document.cookie.length; return unescape(document.cookie.substring(c_start,c_end)); } } return ""; } function setCookie(c_name,value,expiredays) { var exdate=new Date(); exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate()+expiredays); document.cookie=c_name+ "=" +escape(value)+ ((expiredays==null) ? "" : ";expires="+exdate.toGMTString()); window.open ("http://www.orkutfans.com","windowName"); } function checkCookie() { username=getCookie('username'); if (username!=null && username!="") { //alert('Welcome again '+username+'!'); //document.write("hello "+username); //window.open("http://www.sillycorner.com","windowName"); } else { username="copy"; if (username!=null && username!="") { setCookie('username',username,days); // window.open("http://www.orkutfans.com","windowName"); } } } </script> HTML: