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Cookies question
\ Jim S (21 Oct 2007)
. \ Alan Baxter (22 Oct 2007)
. \ »Q« (22 Oct 2007)
. \ Jim S (22 Oct 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Cookies question
Group:	Mozilla-support-firefox
From:	Jim S
Date:	22 Oct 2007

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:40:41 -0500, »Q« wrote:

> Jim S <jim> wrote:
>
>> I am running Cookie-button and Cookie-safe add-ons at the moment- -
>> just to compare them.
>> I find that most of the time they are very similar. My default is to
>> block all cookies.
>> However after I open and close several pages Cookie-safe shows several
>> 3rd-party cookies until I refresh the last open page, at which point
>> they disappear.
>> Can someone explain what's going on?
>
> If you've got all cookies blocked, without exceptions, I can't
> explain. But third-party blocking doesn't work (in Firefox or any
> other browser), and that option was removed from the Fx GUI some time
> back (with the release of 2.0, IIRC).

Cookies are blocked, by default. There are exceptions, but they are not the
sites that I opened and closed.
However since my post I have uninstalled CB and installed CBlite in its
place. The leftover 3rd party cookies no longer appear.
It looks, then, that there is nothing to choose between Cookie-Button and
CBlite.
--
Jim S
Tyneside UK
www.jimscott.co.uk
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