On 11/30/2015 2:47 AM, Daniel wrote: > On 30/11/2015 3:34 AM, David E. Ross wrote: >> On 11/29/2015 4:45 AM, A Williams wrote: >>> I tend to give most "collateral damage" sites the "Allow for Session" >>> setting for Cookies. Today I went through the permissions listing and >>> discovered that quite a few unwanted sites have the "Allow" setting. >>> >>> So I changed the permissions to "Allow for Session". >>> >>> Positioning to the next site and back again, I see that the Permissions >>> are immediately reset to "Allow". Deleting all existing cookies (for >>> the site) and then trying again does not help. >>> >>> How do I make this change - my personal "do not track" - stick? >>> >> >> I found the best solution (best for me) to be with the PrefBar extension >> from <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/prefbar/>. I >> imported into PrefBar the Permissions Menu menulist from >> <http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/buttons.html#permissionsmenu> and used it >> to get the old Cookies Manager. >> >> On the Cookie Websites tab, I deleted entries for Web sites that >> indicate "website can set cookes" and re-entered those sites with the >> Session button. If I want to block a Web site completely from setting >> cookies, I select the Stored Cookies tab on Cookie Manager. I check the >> "Don't allow websites that set removed cookies to set future cookies" >> checkbox and then delete the unwanted cookies. >> >> Note that, after the Stored Cookies tab indicates only those cookies I >> really want to keep, I terminate the Cookie Manager and SeaMonkey. >> After making sure that everything is terminated, I locate cookies.sqlite >> in my profile and mark it "read-only". Web sites might think they are >> setting persistent cookies but those cookies do not get written to their >> database when SeaMonkey is terminated. They all become "session only". >> > Thank you, David, for providing your work-arounds, but, if I mark a > cookie as "Allow for Session Only", why does SM ignore my wishes and > change the cookies setting to "Allow". Do the Devs know better, or > something?? >
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.39 That is not happening for me. -- David E. Ross The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland. The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia. See <http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
