That's fine, i wasn't knocking your suggestion. I'm just not in the mood to be a cookies guinea pig. :) Everything works for me in Mozilla, i don't want to tempt fate.
Joel Hammer wrote: > Well, I just thought that cookie rejection leading to plugin errors while > browsing with konqueror might be of interest to konqueror users! > > Joel > > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:27:20PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: > >>Its quite possible that the cookies are being accepted, and i'm none the >>wiser. I'm not interested in messing around with my cookies. >> >>Quite honestly, i don't see what the big deal is about cookies. I >>really dont' care much about what gets written. >> >>Joel Hammer wrote: >> >>>Hmm.... >>> >>>I am not at home right now and can't give you the names, but there were at >>>least two places hitting me with cookies, besides the NYTimes. I wonder if >>>my ISP (Comcast) is doing this to me? Or, maybe you are taking those cookies >>>and don't know it? >>> >>>Why not try changing your cookie policy to ask permission for all >>>cookies, go to the NYTimes web site, and see if you don't get asked to allow >>>some cookies from non NYTimes sites? >>> >>>Speaking of cookies, would it be bad to just use your firewall to block >>>cookies from all those obnoxious advertising places, or would that make the >>>browser hang up while the web page tries to download them on you? >>> >>>Joel >>> >>> >>>On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:39:07PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Joel Hammer wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Second item worth bringing up. I was running konqueror (redhat 7.1) as a >>>>>remote application on my wife's new linux box (an old retread win98 box), >>>>>and all was well. I was reading the NYTimes, which is free but full of popup >>>>>ads. I finally started rejecting cookies from those popup people. Suddenly, >>>>>I started getting plugin errors galore from konqueror, which made it almost >>>>>unusable. I restarted konqueror, with the same problem. So, I reset the >>>>>cookie policy to accept those cookies again, and the problem went away. >>>>> >>>>>This seems like a bug in konqueror or a clever way for the NYTimes to >>>>>avoid parasites like me. Has anyone else had a similar experience? >>>> >>>>I read the NYT website all the time with Mozilla. My cookie preference >>>>is set to >>>>allow only cookies originating from the site, and i don't have any problems. >>>> >>>>I've only encountered a 1-time popup at the NYT site, and it occurs on >>>>the front >>>>page. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 2:35pm up 9 days, 21:30, 4 users, load average: 0.06, 0.17, 0.17 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
