hello Bevs, select "use custom settings for histroy" in the privacy panel, then the more fine grained cookie settings will appear: Settings for privacy, browsing history and do-not-track

Note that the "Use custom settings for history" choice allows you to see the current history and cookie settings, but selecting this choice doesn't make any changes to history and cookie settings.
Firefox shows the "Use custom settings for history" selection as an indication that at least one of the history and cookie settings is not the default to make you aware that changes were made.
If all History settings are default then the custom settings are hidden and you see "Firefox will: (Never) Remember History".
"Never Remember History" means that Private Browsing is active and "Always use private browsing mode" gets a check mark.

Thanks Phillip, but using custom settings (could not see any cookies listed at all-it was blank all the time- did not know who had a cookie placed on computer, so changed back to remember history) and that caused the problem of a different Privacy window with less options. The window now does NOT display many items it used to, such as there are NO boxes nor phrases that say:

Always use private browsing mode

 Remember my browsing history and down load
 Remember search and form history
 Accept cookies from sites
   Accept third -party cookies  
                                         always
                                          never
   Keep until
                                          they expire 
 Clear history when Firefox closes.

All gone.

In its place is this new phrasing:

Firefox will remember your browsing, download, form and search history, and keep cookies from websites you visit.

You may want to clear your recent history or remove individual cookies. ..................

I want the old format/window back where I can check never accept 3rd party cookies.

Have I been invaded by viruses? Do I need to download a new firefox even though it says I have the latest version? I don't want to lose by bookmarks and history. But, privacy window has changed, I fee vulnerable to 3rd party cookies.

Now what?

You need to select "Use custom settings for history" in the Remember History drop-down list to get the other choices.

• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Options+window+-+Privacy+panel

Firefox has a setting to enable third-party cookies as session cookies and for visited sites only.

• Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history"

You can set the Boolean pref network.cookie.thirdparty.sessionOnly to true on the about:config page to make third-party cookies behave as session cookies (i.e. they expire when you close Firefox).