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What's an LS cookie?
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I've gone and pimped out firefox to try out v4 as my main browser, so far aside from not being able to import my bookmarks from Chrome and having to ad them manually it's been good. Now I need to find a replacement for Lazarus... Found a beta of Lazarus that works too...
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 (March 10, 2011 at 11:28 am)theVOID Wrote: I've gone and pimped out firefox to try out v4 as my main browser, so far aside from not being able to import my bookmarks from Chrome and having to ad them manually it's been good. This didn't work for you?
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
No, it does nothing with the HTML file, it just looks as if it died silently, no errors and no bookmarks.
It was probably for the best, My bookmarks needed some organizing. What are some other extensions of interest?
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RE: What's an LS cookie?
March 10, 2011 at 12:16 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2011 at 12:21 pm by Jaysyn.)
(March 10, 2011 at 11:50 am)theVOID Wrote: No, it does nothing with the HTML file, it just looks as if it died silently, no errors and no bookmarks. I'm still using FF3.6 but besides the ones I've already mentioned I like: Extensions Ad-Block Pro New Tab King (should be familiar from Chrome) US English Spellchecking Dictionary Better Gmail2 & Gmail Manager Flashblock FlashGot (hooks for download manager) ForecastFox FoxyTunes Greasefire (script updater / installer for Greasemonkey) IE Tab2 (mostly for my employer's timeclock & webmail servers) ImageZoom Xinha Here! (HTML & BBCode editor) Themes Curacao Charamel & Silvermel Pimpzilla Not sure if any of these will work or are needed in FF4. BTW, I quit using FileZilla because FireFTP was easier & more convenient for me to use, mostly grabbing GIS data & such for work.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
 RE: What's an LS cookie?
March 19, 2011 at 10:27 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2011 at 10:28 am by 8BitAtheist.)
LS cookies are mostly flash Cookies (.LSO files, Local Shared Objects) that websites like Megavideo, Youtube, Veoh, or such (streaming media sites) leave on your computer. They can be up to 300mb I think (Biggest one I had was about 200mb if I remember correctly). When you clear all data on firefox/chrome/opera, it doesn't get rid so Better Privacy (It's the real name of the addon) deletes them.
Some websites use them for time limits. I can usually skip the 30 minute wait and watch videos immediately after the 72 minute limit deadline on Megavideo. It's a handy addon that also saves me a lot of space. More info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Share...ct#Storage LSOs can be used by web sites to collect information on how people navigate those web sites even if people believe they have restricted the data collection.[4] More than half of the internet’s top websites use LSOs to track users and store information about them.[5] There is relatively little public awareness of LSOs, and they can usually not be deleted by the cookie privacy controls in a web browser.[5] This may lead a web user to believe a computer is cleared of tracking objects, when it is not.[5] Several services even use LSOs as surreptitious data storage to reinstate traditional cookies that a user deleted, a policy called "re-spawning" in homage to video games where adversaries come back to life even after being "killed". So, even if a user gets rid of a website’s tracking cookie, that cookie’s unique ID will be assigned back to a new cookie again using the Flash data as "backup." [6] In USA, at least five class-action lawsuits have accused media companies of surreptitiously using Flash cookies.[7] In certain countries it is illegal to track users without their knowledge and consent. For example, in the UK, customers must consent to use of cookies/LSOs as defined in the “Guidance on the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003”:[8] Cookies or similar devices must not be used unless the subscriber or user of the relevant terminal equipment: is provided with clear and comprehensive information about the purposes of the storage of, or access to, that information; and is given the opportunity to refuse the storage of, or access to, that information. 
If anyone is interested, in the next few days I'll be writing a blog post about what I consider the top security & privacy addons for Firefox.
http://cryptogasm.com |
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