At around 23/6/06 3:09 pm, Leigh Meyers wrote:
> ravi wrote:
>> At around 23/6/06 1:40 pm, Jim Devine wrote:
>>
>>> (2) if I erase the "cookies" that were imposed on me by various
>>> unknown sources when I browsed using Firefox, are there any dire
>>> consequences? what if I get rid of all of them?
>>>
>>
>> The short answer: No, there shouldn't be any dire consequences.
>
> <...>
>
> from my cookies folder that controls the automatic updating of google's
> toolbar.
>
> That's why I mentioned that it's safer to let software do the deleting,
> rather than just emptying the cookie folder... This cookie will be
> ignored by routines like spybot S&D although it may show up as a browser
> helper object or somesuch.
>
Sure, your suggestion is safer, though not applicable AFAIK to
non-Windows users (Spybot S&D is a Windows tool, yes?). I would be
surprised though that the developers at Google (especially since I know
a bunch of them ;-)) would have coded themselves into a corner by
incorrectly relying on the presence of cookies... surely the toolbar
does not lose functionality (or fail completely in updating itself)
because of the missing cookies?
--ravi
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