My response was based on your being rude and also saying "I'm not sure
what you're on about:" Maybe you are English or maybe you are
fantasizing that you are, who knows....
Anyhow, I am saying a pretty simple thing here. I don't expect
Mozilla to do a great job as the latest and greatest cookie manager. I
wish they hadn't tread into the territory at all with their nonstandard
method. A tiny accessory program can currently handle the job
beautifully for all versions of Netscape before 6, all Opera versions,
all IE versions, Copernic, Outlook, Quicken, Neoplanet and almost every
program you can tell Cookie Pal is currently residing in memory. This
is because these programs don't try to take it upon themselves to take
control exactly how the cookie is passed through.
So this frustrating new capability should either be able to be
turned off completely in the preferences or it should not be in this
nonstandard form that will force the 3rd party cookie programs to
abandon the Mozilla/Netscape line.
Cookies are not a large threat to users' privacy and usually don't
have an insidious nature whatsoever, but they also should be able to be
voluntarily opted out of easily. Mozilla should not be contributing to
complicating what became a standard process. There are enough other
issues of privacy on the web that are evolving on their own.
