[email protected] wrote:
A Williams - [email protected] wrote:
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?
It may not help with the permissions not sticking, but why not set the
default cookie retention policy to "Accept for current session only"
(Edit > Preferences > Privacy & Security > Cookies), and then set the
permission to "Allow" for specific sites which you want to allow to
store persistent cookies? That way, you don't allow previously unknown
sites to set persistent cookies; only those which you explicitly allow
can do that.
Also, bear in mind that restricting cookies to a session won't prevent
them from being used to track activity across several sites which you
visit in the same session.
My setting there is: Ask for each cookie, except for session cookies.
That gives me (almost!) all of the control I need. This thread is about
the "almost".
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.
I think I can see what is happening and it appears my permissions.sqlite
is corrupt. Taking a site at random (ok, its near the top)
http://123people.com
When I look at the permissions for that site, "Set Cookies" is in there
twice - two lines for the one entry - changing one of the lines works,
the second one is resilient.
Are they both for the same subdomain? It may be, for example, that one
is for 123people.com and the other for www.123people.com, which is not a
duplicate.
Maybe I could get out of this if it was possible to delete permissions
but it does not appear to be.
I think ticking the "Use Default" option should to that - the permission
disappears after you switch to a different domain and back again. But if
your database is actually corrupt that may not work.
possibility 1 - rename the file and start again.
Probably your best bet, if the database is actually corrupt.
possibility 2 - get some utility which can clean up a "SQLite 3.x
database, user version 8" under Linux.
I'm not sure of specifics off the top of my head, but others here have
mentioned an application for editing the data in SQLite databases. You'd
probably need to understand the structure of the database records
though, to know what needs to be deleted. If you attempt this,
definitely make a backup of your profile first!
possibility 3 - "it does not matter what the second line says, it is the
first one which counts" would be the perfect solution!
Something which could compress places.sqlite (21GB) or
webappsstore.sqlite (10GB) would also not be a bad idea. Further
research is called for. Thanks.
From <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_SeaMonkey>, apparently
places.sqlite stores browsing history and bookmarks. Perhaps clearing
browsing history would compact it? Edit > Preferences > Browser >
History > Clear History.
webappsstore.sqlite isn't listed there, but I'd guess that's where web
applications can store data on your computer so perhaps one or other of
the following are relevant:
- Tools > Data Manager; select "Storage only" from the dropdown near the
top left corner to see sites with data stored (I don't have any, and my
webappsstore.sqlite is 3kB, but perhaps you have lots)
- Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Offline Apps; from there you can
either clear all data, or just clear the data for specific sites if you
want to keep some sites. I have the option there set to only allow sites
I've given permission to store data, which probably keeps the size down
(I only have one site listed there, using 401kB, but I think that may be
stored in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\<profile>\OfflineCache\ rather
than webappsstore.sqlite).
Mark.
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