Cookies not deleted even after system restart
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Firstly, I just love this product!
I run OS X 10.9 (Mavericks); Safari 7.0.1; Cookies 3.0.23; Remove: On Quit and On Browser Quit are both checked, Every: is not.
Sometimes - I am guessing a bit less than half the time - after I quit Safari, and after I then restart the system, looking at the "Cookie Window" before I do anything else I still have bunches of non-favorites and tracking cookies showing. I can manually delete them at that time. This seems to be an error.
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OK, I lied in the OP, because I find that I do not always terminate Safari before I restart. Thinking that could be an issue, I tested it, and in fact even then Cookie sometimes has cleared things out when I check immediately after restart.
Which brought to mind some possibilities/questions:
- In fact you treat a restart as including a Safari termination, in which case it doesn't always work.
- If I really do terminate the browser before a restart, sometimes events proceed so fast that Cookie doesn't have a chance to do the clear before the system actually quits, and doesn't remember after the restart.
If this is not, in fact, a bug (or feature as some used to call them :)), then I would love to see another check box in the Preferences which specifies to clean out the undesirables on system restart.
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I would say number 2 is the culprit.
Cookie actually runs two 'cleans' when Safari quits, as the first clean immediately after quit does not remove all data. Safari tends to write cookie data upto 6-7 seconds after quit. Cookie gets around this by clearing data 8 seconds after safari is quit. (only Safari, no other browser has this issue).
So I guess, the system shuts down before Cookie can clear data the second time.
