Ed Mullen wrote:
Clearing cookies is iffy. I would /never/ clear ALL cookies - it would be a major pain in the ass.
That really depends on your personal preferences and how you use cookies. I routinely clear them on shutdown or whenever a site is acting stupid, and I don't notice a bit of inconvenience.
Of course, if I were UBL or something and wanted to stay off the NSA's radar, I wouldn't be using a computer. But I still resent the intrusive data mining routinely done by all sorts of websites; companies like Google probably all have thick dossiers containing details on every site I've ever visited and when. YMMV.
And, people may say they've cleared all their cookies but, actually, haven't. Most folks don't understand cookies.
The obvious way is through Tools | Clear Private Data, assuming "Cookies" is checked in your prefs under Edit | Preferences | Privacy & Security | Private Data. Clearing one site's cookies is doable through the Cookie Manager -- either the standard way via Tools | Cookie Manager | Manage Stored Cookies or the way you outline below -- but it's pretty cumbersome.
Me? I'd be, in the cookie manager, chrome://communicator/content/permissions/cookieViewer.xul searching for all the Time Warner URLs and delete them. Hey, just an idea. No need to reply unless it makes a diff. FWIW, one one my best friends is on Time Warner and I'm always ... ah, nuff said.
Where I think most people go wrong is when they're at a site and change the pref to block all cookies from a site (Tools | Cookie Manager | Block Cookies from This Website), thinking that will also clear the site's existing cookies. AFAICT, that only blocks future cookies, leaving existing ones in place.
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