a proprietary cookie handling method. I would prefer this tiny piece of
text that is transmitted back and forth, conveying habits or activities
or previously filled in entries, to be handled by the much praised
software Cookie Pal, Cookie Crusher, or any other 3rd party shareware
cookie blocking software. This way I can feel confident that cookies are
very easily dismissed in a passive way and not an unnecessarily active
way which would make me tend to pay for any laxness on my part in
handling cookies. At the very least, the old style of cookie
presentation should be an OPTION for the Mozilla/Netscape/AOL browser user.
The programmers of Mozilla owe the users of Mozilla and its
derivative browsers the use of the old standby method of getting rid of
cookies which is much preferred because it incorporates a simpler way to
dismiss the cookies you don't want using a much better logic system, the
entire web sites that you don't want, or the entire stream of cookies
from previously unvisited websites and accept the ones you do want from
the particular web page or entire web site that you want them from
without a continual barrage of individual cookies for every situation as
Mozilla currently presents them. Cookie Pal for example is the best I've
seen in making the process of getting cookies out of your way much more
straightforward so that you don't have to keep dealing with the issue
over and over. This used to work just fine with Netscape. Now, I guess
partly for very stupid users and partly for AOL's agenda in not making
it too convenient to get rid of all cookies and still have a perfectly
good web browsing experience, an ugly proprietary method has been placed
between the browser and the web surfer.
The GOOD NEWS is, the web browser OPERA's cookie handling is the
standard method and can be used with cookie handling programs and Opera
is otherwise a great browser with even better use of Tabs. I suggest
that if Mozilla/Netscape doesn't soon show up with the ability to choose
NOT to use this stupid proprietary cookie handling method, everyone
would be quite happy using OPERA 6. So this is our option if Mozilla
doesn't want to fix the cookie situation.
