Stephen Morris: >> I don't know if it is of any benefit, but I have always had Firefox >> configured to delete cookies and site data on close.
Eyal:> Me too, but I understand that here 'close' means 'ff close' not 'tab close'. I can see it either way. It makes sense that if you close a browser tab to a website, that's when you've think you've quit it and it should treat that as closed. But if you've opened a link from a site in another tab, it probably needs to consider that closing both such tabs is when you've really quit. Apart from tracking and advertising, some sites still use cookies for their original purpose of maintaining some kind of internal status or settings as you browse through their site. e.g. A government site where you have to complete several steps of some process, and you're allowed to do so in any order that suits you. So they can't all be rejected as they come in, but can generally all be erased when you leave. And as another example, there's an on-line TV guide that uses them to remember your location and preferred channels (fair enough), and so you don't have to login again next time (not really a secure thing to do, but this situation doesn't need to be secure). They don't really need a login for you, the cookies would have been enough. But logging in means you can have consistency if you use them on different browsers and devices. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
