All web browsers accept cookies from all websites in their default configuration. Cookies contain different information, from session data over individual site preferences to advertisement and tracking related data. Cookies can generally be classified into good and bad cookies. The Internet user benefits from good cookies, for instance from cookies that contain session information. These [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Mozilla Firefox offers no way to manipulate cookies directly in the web browser unlike the Opera web browser. While cookie editing is probably not something that the majority of users would ever want to dive in there might be some users who would want to do just that. This can be web developers who want [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

How would an effective and secure cookie management look like? Most users would probably answer that it would make use of whitelists, blacklists and temporary cookies. The whitelist would contain trusted sites that require cookies to function properly. Trust would mean that you would keep the cookies on your system even after closing the session [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, ie, Opera

Cookies are basically used for two purposes. The first is to remember that a user is already logged into a website and to track user actions. While the first purpose does make a lot of sense the second is one that is better to be avoided. If you would disable cookies on a website where [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Security