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Using the Firefox ‘Clear Private Data tool’, I set my privacy settings on my Firefox to clear the following when closing:
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Trouble is, when I needed to log into Gmail, maintain my Google search preferences, keep my Digg login active, New York Times login, my Blogger login – you name it, I had to re-submit my credentials each time.
Now, Firefox doesn’t seem to have a ‘Delete all cookies except the following’ feature under a fancy button entitled ‘Delete all cookies except the following feature’. But here is the way to do it without installing any add-ins or extensions -
I use the same technique described here, and I can answer a couple of these questions:
No, "Clear Private Data" will not honor the exceptions. It will remove all cookies if you tell it to include cookies. So for this to work, you have to tell CPD not to delete cookies, and let your cookie settings take care of it.
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n a side note, in Firefox 2.0b2, the "keep cookies until I close Firefox" option DOES pay attention to the Exceptions.
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f you already "carry" a lot of cookies, adding them to exceptions one-by-one can get tedious because wwhen you're in the exceptions dialogue you can't see the ones you're carrying. You can at least edit cookies.txt from your profile (you'll be amazed), save it under a different name, and have the new text file visible when you're adding exceptions. Too bad you can't just paste in the whole list (bah!) but at least it's visible.
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Craig RettigNow, Firefox doesn’t seem to have a ‘Delete all cookies except the following’ feature under a fancy button entitled ‘Delete all cookies except the following feature’. But here is the way to do it without installing any add-ins or extensions
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08 Sep 06
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