Re: cookie manager - delete all

Hello Phil,



On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 00:06, Philip Langdale wrote:

> 
> While it is true that a 'delete all' button is absent in the new UI,
> the list supports multile selection, so using shift-click to select
> all the cookies and then pressing delete will do the trick.

I realised that but this is a usability issue. Try surfing for a couple
of hours with accept all cookies option enabled and see just how many
cookies you get. Shift clicking them and then deleting takes a long
time.

Maybe it will be clearer if I explain my (paranoid) mode of operation. I
find that 99% of the sites I visit will work without cookies. So I have
all cookies disabled. For the sites where I must use cookies (e.g. ebay)
I switch them on (accept all cookies) do the business then delete ALL
cookies and go back to refuse all cookies again.

I know all about cookie management but I find that this is more work for
me than the process above. Take ebay as an example again. Although I can
choose to accept cookies from ebay.co.uk there is also cgi.ebay.co.uk,
images.ebay.com, links.ebay.co.uk etc... I then have to spend time
managing a situation I am not interested in.

I realise I probably work in a different way from others but hey thats
the *nix way.

Regards,
Iain. 



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