Cookies are useful for remembering passwords, if the site itself offers to remember them and not the browser, or just to remember who you are.
They're also quite essential in maintaining a stateful session with a server so that you don't have to tell it who you are every time you hit a button. There are other ways to do this, but cookies are the preferred approach. I think it's rare to store information in a cookie. Usually it would just contain an id to represent you. I like the old Camino browser which forces you to agree to let a site set cookies in the future. That way you can block the advert sites and allow the site you really went to. Hen On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Tony LaFemina wrote: > Marta Edie wrote: > > > Hi everybody, what does resetting Safari actually accomplish? When > > would I do a reset? Lately I have noticed my Safari being a little > > confused, trying to tell me the website cannot be found while at the > > same time the website appears. It also seems a lot slower at times. > > Marta > > > > > > > Hi Marta > > I don't use Safari yet. I'm still living in the old world OS using > Netscape, but here's my assessment of the situation. When it comes to > the internet, if anything seems like it's working, be thankful. There's > too many variables to pin problems down to anything specific. Especially > your browser. Granted, browsers may not be perfect, but I think (for the > most part) they're designed fairly well, even though they all may not be > able to display the exact same page. > > When it comes to the internet, I think a majority of the problems are > generated by "web designers" using custom web design software. I would > imagine a few of them have marginal design skills, coupled with a less > than comfortable familiarity of the program, in addition to the programs > deviation from web standards, and so on and so forth. > > John mentioned some of the things that get wiped out when you reset > Safari. If what he says is true, then doing it can't hurt. Especially > removing the cookies. The only benefit I can see from those things are, > tracking your movements on the internet. Who needs that? On the other > hand, if you know where cookies are stored, then you can just trash them > without removing the other stuff. > > -- > Tony LaFemina > When you want to do more than just buy software > http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html > mailto:remacs at optonline.net > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
