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Safari Cookies automatically manage your Cookies, Flash Cookies, Local Storage/Databases from the Safari preferences pane. Localized for English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.
What's New
Version 1.8:
- Fixed some memory leaks
- Fix for not displaying all databases
- Fixed memory leaks in database removal
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Safari Cookies automatically manage your Cookies, Flash Cookies, Local Storage/Databases from the Safari preferences pane. Localized for English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.
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I have a heck of a lot of bookmarks, and I definitely do not want to keep cookies from perhaps 95% of them. I’m guessing that most users feel the same way about this preference setting, so it's baffling to me that it is forced on us.
Mr. Gray, could you please make this preference truly selectable so we can stop unnecessarily saving all the cookies and other junk from thousands of websites that we MUST designate as “Favorites” [actually called “Bookmarks”] simply because we cannot remember the URL of each and every one? Isn’t that a somewhat unreasonable punishment for our species' non-photographic (eidetic) memory?
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You are incorrect...
In the context of Safari Cookies, "Favorites" refers only to cookies you've selected as favorites in its pref pane, regardless of whether they're bookmarked or not..
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Though he was clearly confused at first about how Safari Cookies was supposed to work, Dthdunn's series of comments (below) made me question just how well it actually works, and I discovered that it does in fact allow just about any kind of cache to be set and has periodically had problems stopping cookies and other things that it was supposed to block.
So, I have recently switched to the shareware app called 'Cookie,' which I'm still evaluating. So far, it appears to be far, far more effective than Safari Cookies, and it has the added advantage of being system-wide (it works in Firefox and Chromium, too). Though I appreciate Safari Cookies and its developer's generosity, I now need something more powerful and comprehensive.
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> "[...] I discovered that it does in fact allow just about any kind of cache to be set and has periodically had problems stopping cookies and other things that it was supposed to block."
Quoting Sweetp Productions's post of Oct. 31, "Safari Cookies doesn't prevent cookies from being set, it allows for automation of removal of unwanted cookies when Safari is closed."
Restating that: Safari cookies has no capability to, nor does it claim to, block ANYTHING!
It is merely a reporting and removal, either while Safari is open or upon its being quit, service.
> So, I have recently switched to the shareware app called 'Cookie,' which I'm still evaluating.
I d/l'ed Cookies (same developer) at your mention last night, and I, too, am in the process of evaluating it; so far it looks like it's a wee bit more functional than Safari Cookies, but faaar from a panacea.
To the best of my knowledge there is no app out there that can block the cookies and caches we'd both love to see blocked, but you'll likely be interested in Ghostery (Safari Extension).
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What an utterly sh1tty Internet model we've all settled for.
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Second, we're doing battle with a longstanding bug in Safari that apparently enables it to dredge cleared cookies out of RAM and REINSTATE THEM AS FUNCTIONAL COOKIES WITHOUT REINSTATING THEM in ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist, so none of the cookie managers with which I've experimented, i.e. Cookie, Safari Cookies, Cocoa Cookies, and Cookie Stumbler, is able to clear them. (To the best of my knowledge, these wraiths can be cleared only by quitting Safari.)
Third, my investigations into "Second" have led me to suspect that there is a new Safari bug, and I've been working with Russell of Sweetp Productions on this one, that is further confounding the cookie managers and, therefore, us.
Aaargh! :(
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True, they can be cleared via Safari > Prefs > Privacy > Remove All Website Data, but that clears all cookies, even those we may want to retain.
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— That is, unless you instead command-select only the ones you want to get rid of and use the "Remove" button instead of "Remove All." But depending on how frequently you do so, that can take quite some time. [Be patient after you hit the "Remove" button — at first it will seem that it has nuked everything, but in time, the ones you didn't nuke will reappear.]
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I find quitting Safari combined with using a manager to save my "faves" preferable.
[Be patient after you hit the "Remove" button — at first it will seem that it has nuked everything, but in time, the ones you didn't nuke will reappear.]"
I've never experienced that, and I've used "Remove" many, many times.
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> "That is, unless you instead command-select only the ones you want to get rid of and use the 'Remove' button instead of 'Remove All.'"
which responded to my post
> "Clarification of: "To the best of my knowledge, these wraiths can be cleared only by quitting Safari."
True, they can be cleared via Safari > Prefs > Privacy > Remove All Website Data, but that clears all cookies, even those we may want to retain."
Sorry for the error, but my post is incorrect: The only way I've found to permanently get rid of reappearing deleted cookies is to quit Safari; you can only do so temporarily with Safari running.
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I do not know why this product did not work for me, but I wish the guy behind it good luck.
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I foolishly sent this guy/company money because I was so impressed with the software. I should have tested it further.
- It has a specific button to block Google cookies, but they load anyway. I have completely stopped using Google search to protest their use of persistent cookies to track my daily computer usage.
- It has a button to delete all cookies except those you specifically allow. Third party and advertising cookies load anyway.
I hate to complain about a free product, but since I decided to pay, I feel I can complain. In my limited research, this product does absolutely NOTHING.
I am looking for a comment from the person(s) who write this software.
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Further, I have tested the software multiple times and the cookies are still there when I restart Safari. In my case (I just check this again) there are 91 cookie subsets where I have only 21 that I want to persist.
Your software seems very intuitive. But, perhaps I am missing something. Your software claims to block the Google cookies, but I have a have dozen cookie subsets from Google in place when I restart Safari. Your software claims to erase cookies, but every single one is there upon restart (sometimes even more are there.
If I am missing something please advise. Once again, I do not like to be critical of a person who provides free software, but you do now have the $10 donation you requested.
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If this option doesn't even work, why have it? Would this not give users a false sense of privacy and security.
The option is there to mirror the Cookie Settings in Safari's privacy tab. It was originally put there, to avoid having to look at two separate tabs to manage your cookies.
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1. "With respect, I see no way to use Safari Cookies when Safari is closed, as the software is integrated into Safari as a preference plane. "
Navigate to Safari > Preferences > (Safari) Cookies > Preferences, check the "WHEN QUITTING SAFARI: Automatically manage cookies" box, and check the boxes as you prefer.
2. "Further, I have tested the software multiple times and the cookies are still there when I restart Safari. In my case (I just check this again) there are 91 cookie subsets where I have only 21 that I want to persist."
Probably because you've never followed the steps enumerated in my item 1.
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sunrocket reviewed on 24 Oct 2011
Its primary limitation comes from Safari itself, which forces you to go in and delete each.individual.cookie — a huge time waster. However, Safari Cookies can do most of the heavy lifting. A very minor problem with one of my favorites (1Password) not showing up as “checked,” even though 1P’s cookies are, indeed, protected. Other than that, a great sanity-saver. Thanks!
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If you want cookie management computer wide, for all browsers and flash and other local dbs Cookie is the best app out there. I did a comparison with Cookie Stumbler and Cookie won for a number of small but important reasons.
Anyways Safari Cookies is great but I outgrew it. I still use it and I wanted to ditch SIMBL, but Chrome is my main browser now. I need to be able to operate in a multi-browser environment and have cookies handled in a way that I can set it and forget it! ;)
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sunrocket reviewed on 28 Jul 2011
What is not clear from the comments here is whether the developer will be able to build a workaround? It's a terrific extension, so hopefully so.
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HOWEVER, this also happens if I delete the cookies using Safari 5.1's new, thoroughly crappy cookie manager.
It seems you flat-out can't dump selected cookies in Safari 5.1, so it's not the fault of SafariCookies, and the single-star rating is undeserved. If it's worked before, and it's "no longer working" that's a troubleshooting issue, not a reason to give a bad review.
Use the troubleshooting tab instead of hurting the app's general rating.
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Does anyone know what it is?
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moschka reviewed on 28 Jun 2011
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3148857?start=0&tstart=0
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thanks!
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or even, this bug:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1998131&start=0&tstart=0
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are you seeing any error messages in Console.app?
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On the first screen/tab, (preferences), "current version" is 0.0.0 and the "about" tab is empty...
Any ideas what this can be? It worked fine for a year.
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also, I recently was informed that, the file:
~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/settings.sol
if deleted, removes all Global Flash settings, which is why this file is now no longer deleted.
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if deleted, removes all Global Flash settings, which is why this file is now no longer deleted. "
maybe that should be optional?
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I can easily put the option back in if it's wanted.
or if anyone has a better suggestion of how to incorporate it into the UI, let me know.
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Safari-Cookies/120596331314159
direct d/l:
http://sweetpproductions.com/safaricookies/Safari_Cookies_1.6.2.1.zip
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Safari-Cookies/120596331314159
http://sweetpproductions.com/safaricookies/Safari_Cookies_latest_beta.zip
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You might want to try to reproduce it with cookies from speedtest.net for example. Even they are marked as favorite, the cookies get wiped out.
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I was previously running 1.4.x with no such problems; history and bookmark-related cookies stuck around as desired. Using 64-bit x86 Safari 5.0.2 on 10.6.4.
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ill try and fix it asap.
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Can reproduce that on two 32bit Intels, even after starting from scratch with a new cookie.plist.
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seems to be a 32bit problem...
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I removed it, as it was a duplicate function.
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Zincker rated on 17 Sep 2011
igortwelveth rated on 14 Sep 2011
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Gantzerc rated on 03 Aug 2011
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Momijigari rated on 20 Jul 2011
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TripHHH rated on 21 Jun 2011
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Grayson Manley rated on 08 Feb 2011
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Momijigari rated on 24 Jan 2011
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Wolfgang rated on 20 Jan 2011
Roro01 rated on 20 Jan 2011
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Jonnyonenote rated on 13 Jan 2011