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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 1.9.4:
- Fixed a memory leak
- Updated exporter to be compatiable with a future Cookie update
- Spanish localisation corrections
- Swedish localisation corrections
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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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Mindsnare reviewed on 25 May 2012
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June8 reviewed on 08 Apr 2012
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/Library/ScriptingAdditions/
/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/
/private/var/db/receipts
com.sweetpproductions.SafariCookies.pkg.bom
com.sweetpproductions.SafariCookies.pkg.plist
net.culater.simbl.SIMBL.pkg.bom
net.culater.simbl.SIMBL.pkg.plist
I didn't want to hunt any further so I re-cloned my 'experience hard drive' software image back unto my test FireWire drive.
I'm looking for an application to STOP all caches, cookies and other website data unless I allow it…period! Any suggestions?
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Nothing I know of that's does what yohe want. The best you can do is automatically remove these things after the fact.
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Hkim reviewed on 05 Apr 2012
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Thomas1977 reviewed on 13 Mar 2012
Simple to use cookies manager. Recommended.
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sunrocket reviewed on 11 Mar 2012
It's back to working fine, and I use it all the time. Thanks for keeping the app up to date.
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I miss the options "accept cookies" always, never, only... and went back to 1.8 (Mac Os 10.6.8, Safari 5.1.2)
Nevertheless it's a great app!
regards
mosch
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its available on Safari's Privacy Tab, and SC merely mirrors the Safari preference.
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but in some situations that means one has to deal with 2 tabs within Safari's preferences ;-)
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@sweetp, great update! Thanks for finally fixing what Apple should have done ages ago (actual clearing of Cookies in cache).
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> @Thanks for finally fixing what Apple should have done ages ago (actual clearing of Cookies in cache).
That's not correct; it's quitting Safari that actually clears the cookies and caches that Safari "stores" in RAM.
Cookie, SweetP's other app, offers cache clearing functionality while Safari is still running, and if you look at Safari > Prefs > Privacy > Details after clicking on "Remove Safari Cache" you'll be shocked by what remains.
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To see your cache contents, you have to goto the Safari->Preferences...->Privacy tab and click on details. Even the "n websites stored cookies or other data" message often doesn't return a corect number of what's in there. You have to click on details, and wait a minute foe everything to show up ... well not any more, as Cookies now cleans it out properly :)
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There's neither a way to know nor a means to find out whether SC is doing something that quitting Safari isn't, but I'll bet heavy against it. :)
By the way, we've got a breakdown in communications going here: As you say, quitting Safari DOESN'T clear its cache; what it DOES do, though, is get rid of the tracking caches & cookies (that Safari somehow dredges out of RAM) that you see in "Privacy" that neither simply clearing cache nor clearing non-favorite cookies gets rid of.
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Joel H reviewed on 02 Mar 2012
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Sanchai reviewed on 02 Mar 2012
After installed, Safari Cookies icon won't show up on Safari's Preferences properly. I have to restart Safari many times before Safari Cookies icon show up[ in Safari;s preferences
After it show up, I click on Safari Cookies icon, and it crash Safari every time.
I have to uninstall Safari Cookies. I personally fed up with Safari Cookies, and do not recommend it due to stability problem
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After starting Safari, just wait perhaps 5 seconds before you open up the preferences. Even if you do open it sooner, and SC is not visible, it IS still running. It will just not be available to SEE, till you relaunch Safari.
I hope this clears up a little confusion.
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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.
— 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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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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