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On Wednesday 29 Oct 2014 23:44:07 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 04:45:56PM +0000, James wrote |
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> > So looking at ~/.mozilla/seamonkey/<dir>/ |
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> > I see these cookies files: |
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> > cookies.sqlite cookies.sqlite-shm cookies.sqlite-wal |
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> > But the are sqlite files. So I need a gui tool to view them as to |
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> > discern logical understanding of what exactly they are and which do |
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> > delete or intelligently pre_filter. [1,2] |
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> > Any suggestions in portage or as a seamonkey "add-on" would |
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> > be keen. I run "no-scipts" but I think I need more to keep |
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> > the cookie_monster under control? suggesions? I also use |
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> > firefox, just not as much. |
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> Sqlite is a database format. You might already have sqlite (the |
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> executable) installed, depending on the value of the "system-sqlite" USE |
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> flag. If so, you can pound away at it manually. Or you can always... |
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> emerge sqlite |
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> If you want a GUI rather than command-line, try |
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> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/ |
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> You also mentioned "flash cookies" in passing. They're a totally |
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> different animal. They're files that reside in directories ~/.adobe and |
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> ~/.macromedia. The way to kill them is to remove the directories and |
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> create dummy files with the same names, so that Flash can't create the |
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> directories. Here's a short script... |
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> #!/bin/bash |
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> rm -rf ~/.adobe |
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> touch ~/.adobe |
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> rm -rf ~/.macromedia |
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> touch ~/.macromedia |
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> The only problem is that certain sites won't play videos without those |
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> directories being present (e.g. video highlights at http://nhl.com ). I |
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> handle them with the following script... |
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> #!/bin/bash |
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> rm -rf ~/.adobe |
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> rm -rf ~/.macromedia |
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> sleep 20 |
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> rm -rf ~/.adobe |
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> touch ~/.adobe |
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> rm -rf ~/.macromedia |
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> touch ~/.macromedia |
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> I launch the script from a terminal, and then immediately click on the |
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> video link in my browser. This gets the videos going, and keeps them |
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> going until they finish. |
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I think that the ~/.adobe directory does not contain website content traceable |
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information, but flash version related info. Could be wrong though. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |