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You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (Wired)

You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (Wired)

Posted Aug 11, 2009 17:12 UTC (Tue) by sitaram (subscriber, #5959)
In reply to: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (Wired) by tavis
Parent article: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (Wired)

I've been running like this for more than a year now:

[ff@sita-lt ~]$ ls -al |grep null
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ff ff 9 2009-01-01 17:46 .macromedia -> /dev/null


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You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (Wired)

Posted Aug 12, 2009 5:44 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

To avoid spurious problems — just think about bugs in closed-source software"!!!" — it might be useful, as a fallback, to use `mount -t tmpfs none $HOME/.macromedia`, though of course that only "clears" it on boot rather than whenever you restart firefox.

You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (Wired)

Posted Aug 12, 2009 9:57 UTC (Wed) by mlankhorst (subscriber, #52260) [Link]

or chown 0:0 .macromedia .adobe; chmod 000 .macromedia .adobe :)

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