Tag: COOKIES

Cookies: Can't live with 'em, can't turn 'em off. But you can tame them. Lifehacker points us to a great Firefox extension called CookieCuller that helps you bend your cookies to your will. More specifically, CookieCuller lets you protect some cookies (e.g. so you don't get logged out of your webmail every time you close the browser) while deleting others automatically. While Firefox 2 somewhat ...

While you can track certain info with cookies (ask the tinfoil hat crowd for a complete list), there's still a lot of things that cookies leave out by design. So Microsoft has patented the "super cookie." What is a super cookie? According to ArsTechnica super cookies are just like regular cookies, but better. Obviously Microsoft, or anyone looking to improve data reporting, wants to ...

Awhile back I posted about the new search results interface Google was supposedly testing. I can definitely confirm that today. This blog post describes how to set a new cookie in Firefox that will force Google to display the new results page for you. Since the instructions are a little off (and took me some fiddling to make them to work), here's my version: Update: In the comments ...