Squish Goes the Bug
Jason reports that the Mozilla/Firefox/$foo cookie bug has gone away in the 1.0 Preview Release … sorta.
There’s an important note about that fix, though: without doing a few manual config changes, you’ll only see a marginal improvement. The old Mozilla way of doing cookies was that you were limited to a total of 300, and this fix increases that number to 1000, a number that should get you a few more days’ worth of browsing before your website logins start expiring.
[This bug was previously raised by Jason and trumpeted here.
The key, as he notes, is in mucking about with about:config and going to the max setting: network.cookie.maxNumber, 65535.
I haven’t upgraded to Firefox Preview Release 1 because I’m too busy doing other crap and putting out fires here … like returning the voicemail I just now saw that I have …
I just took the plunge and installed PR1…but don’t see anything that looks very different. They mentioned changes to the bookmarks and a find toolbar at the bottom, but I don’t see a thing different from what I had.
September 14th, 2004 at 6:23 pmThere’s a few other changes, Mark, though they’re only visible in certain cases. For example, any site with an RSS feed causes an orange “RSS” box to appear in the status bar, and the background of the address bar actually changes color when you go to a secure site.
September 14th, 2004 at 11:12 pmJust noticed the RSS box, Mike. Thanks!
I think I’ve settled on Firefox as my regular browser. Just unistalled Opera.
September 16th, 2004 at 10:57 pmTweaking Firefox
Two Firefox tweaks I will always do:
Set network.cookie.maxNumber to 65535 to get virutally unlimited cookies.
Add support for HTTP pipelining to make your requests go in series rather than parallel.
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