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Originally Posted by Mobius Rex Monitoring cookies is very important to me. Unlike most other browsers, Safari offers pathetically meager control over cookies. There's "accept all", "deny all" or "accept only from sites you navigate to". That's it. No option to allow one to accept or deny cookies on the fly, before they are set.
Check out Opera's ample menu of cookie controls; one can even choose to have new cookies accepted for the session and then deleted when Opera is exited.
And Camino, as well as Firefox, while not offering quite as extensive cookie control options as Opera, are still ahead of Safari in this respect.
Why Safari still lags most other browsers in cookie control options is a mystery. |
I agree with you entirely. Monitoring cookies is an important part of controlling the web experience. If I "Deny all", I'm safe but I get annoyed because I can log in to a site like this and not stay logged in. If I allow only from sites I navigate to, well, I might navigate to sites but not want cookies! It seems like a lose-lose-lose situation.
But I found a solution you might be interested in -
http://pimpmysafari.com/plugins/safariplus offers a freeware called SafariPlus that allows you to designate specific domains to allow cookies from - for me, this is secure enough without getting in my way, and I avoid annoying popups that ask about allowing cookies. If you want to be able to allow/disallow individual cookies, this might not work, but I never came across such a situation.
But anyway, SafariPlus might be a solution that would give Safari a second chance?