I got the prompt to update Cookie, It then prompted me to quit to allow the install. This was done. However whilst updating it told me the app was damaged and to delete it and reinstall from the app store. Which I did, but in the App store there is only to option to open the app, I have deleted it and emptied the trash. But it still will njot install?
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Gooner
On starting my mac I always see Flash Global preferences file (1) in my cookies window. It wont delete them unless I click remove. Why do these not get removed?
The cookies were all reportedly Safari ones, and I havent used Safari for ages, didnt even know you could have add ons in Safari. Anyway since I cleared out those 2 files I havent had a recurrance of the problem
OK
Update, since clearing out those 2 files I have not had a recurrance of the problem, so far. Why are these files not cleared by Cookie? Can you not add a function to Cookies to null these files?
For anyone else with the problem this is what I did
open a terminal window
cd ./Library/Cookies
ls -alrt (Shows all the files in the directory)
if the Cookies.plist and HSTS.plist are greater than 0 in size
cat /dev/null > ./Cookies.plist
cat /dev/null > ./HSTS.plist```
Fixed it for meI just rebooted my Mac and again Cookie reports over 400 tracking cookies, and again these are from sites from many yours ago, sites I have not been to recently and cant fathom why Cookie sees these.
I checked in my Cookie driectory and there are 2 files there, "Cookies.plist" and "HSTS.plist" These files do contain these sites. I have cat /dev/null to them and there are now empty. I will report back on wether cookie shows all these old sites
I have even tried resetting Safari, clearing everything possible, yet it still reports on these sites. Any ideas yet? Why the heck is my complete browsing history retained? Is cookie really doing its job?
I have looked into this and have provided a screenshot showing what cookie sees. I left my mac with both Safari and Firefox closed, came back a few hours later and BING! Cookie shows all these? Now remember, no browser was open during the time, and Cookie was started and showed nothing in there prior to me leaving my mac. Now there are over 400?
Hi
I have noticed now whenever I start cookie it (more than 50% of the time) reports on over 400 cookies, this is pretty much a list of every website I have ever visited. I use Firefox version 24.0 and cookie version v3.0.18 Running Mavericks all up to date. Now I am set for Firefox to delete all history when closing, and cookie shows nothing stored when closing firefox, but restarting my mac or cookie, cookie then shows hundreds of them. So this beggars the questions, where is Cookie app getting this list of sites from? Why are they not cleared? some of those sites I havent visited for years? And once cleared why do they re appear?
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Jed
I recently installed Camino browser, and restarted Cookies and added Camino along with Firefox and Safari. I visit for example bbc.co.uk in Safari and firefox, eachtime Cookie app shows they have dumped cookies and tracking cookies on my Mac. I then quit Safari and Firefox and hey presto cookies are cleared. Fine! Now when I start Camino, there is no report in Cookie of anything being dumped on me from that website, however if I go into Preferences and look at what cookies are in Camino I see them, and can clear them. But! Cookie itself does not show anything, I travel around the web and not one report of anything in Cookie, but in the Camino preferences I see hundreds of these damned things. Perhaps I am doing something wrong? Any ideas as to why Camino is not showing anything in Cookie?
I know cookies store info on site preferences, and tracking ones track and send data to sites letting them know where you came from, I guess? But maybe it might to an idea for the Cookie guys to post a thred explaining in laymans terms what they do, what do the database ones do? I have heard the flash ones can contain your login information and passowrds for certain sites? Just an idea to maybe help us users realsise the things they get from us if we dont use Cookie. Just a thought
If there already is one, then maybe you could point me to the definitive details. I cant be bothered to fly here and there on the internet, would rather pop in here read it and smile smugly knowing I am protected
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Gooner