It mainly saves a bit of diskspace and wipes out some personal information that you might want to be seen.
I've recently noticed that Safari often claims a site can't be found, but on hitting refresh it happily finds it. Am unsure if it's an issue with my DNS server or with Safari itself. It only happens once every two days or so, so not enough to irritate but enough to form a pattern. Hen On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, John Robinson wrote: > Marta, > > I won't know it all, but the reset wipes out your footprints of all > history, it empties the cache, it empties the cookies, it really takes > you back to a fresh beginning. I do it ever so often, don't know it I > need to. > > > John R. > > > On Apr 20, 2004, at 8:35 PM, 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 > > > > > > > > | 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> > | 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>
