On Nov 16, 2014, at 6:03 AM, R. D. Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > > I need a little help with browser behavior & cookie retention > to my desktop computer. (Mac OS X, ver. 10.10) > > I regularly check and clear most all cookies that occur with my > usual Safari browsing, leaving only the eBay cookie. Now, most > of the time the cookies that have appeared in the list stay gone > after removal, but sometimes, after a few moments, cookies I’ve > just removed/deleted re-appear in the cookies list. This can be > seen repeating, sometimes as many as 4 or 5 times! And cookies > have appeared that have [not] even been visited by my browsing. > > What’s causing this, and how is it even happening?
Try quitting Safari and restarting after you delete the cookies. Safari caches some cookies in memory and periodically writes them to the disk. Quitting should empty the cache. I haven’t tried this lately because I hardly ever clear cookies, but it used to work on older versions of Safari.
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