I have written an article about Flash Cookies last year and it turned out that several users did not know they existed and were grateful that they were now able to take care of them. Flash Cookies are not stored in the usual location where the other cookies are stored but in %APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player on [...]

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Randy was commenting on today’s article about using several Firefox profiles pointing out that he would love a list of the security add-ons that I was using in my secure profile. One of those is called View Dependencies. You have to understand that loading a website is not like downloading one file to your computer. [...]

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If you choose to delete the cache whenever Firefox exits it’s gone, right ? Wrong ! Sure, it got deleted from the hard disk but every file recovery utility, like Recuva, will be able to restore the deleted cache which means that everyone may take a look at each and every website that you visited during your last browsing session.

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Selectively deleting your history entries seems like something you do in adolescence and while I hope I may help my young friends in this area, my reason for wanting to do this is to un-clutter my history.
If you visit a video on Youtube often for example, you will have a hard time just typing “you” [...]

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Importing and Exporting Firefox passwords can be useful if you use Firefox on more than one computer, e.g. a laptop and a desktop PC. I guess we all found ourselves in a situation where we were working on a second computer trying to remember the password of a website that we wanted to visit.

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