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terrie · 09-05-2006, 02:18 PM

Does anyone have a clue about why Firefox created what appears to be an infinite number of cookies.txt files (suffixed with a number to make the name unique) about every minute that one is using the browser????

I had over 1000 (yes!!! 1000!!!) of these stupid files after using it for a few hours...

Is there some option to turn that off?

The only time I ever get hits in either Spybot Search & Destroy or AdAware is when I use IE (very rare occurrence but I have to use it every now and again)--normally I use Netscape.

Is there some option(s) I could turn off to make it safer? Active-x or something???

Thanks...

Terrie

09-05-2006, 02:18 PM	#1
terrie Staff Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 6,619	FF & IE questions... Does anyone have a clue about why Firefox created what appears to be an infinite number of cookies.txt files (suffixed with a number to make the name unique) about every minute that one is using the browser???? I had over 1000 (yes!!! 1000!!!) of these stupid files after using it for a few hours... Is there some option to turn that off? The only time I ever get hits in either Spybot Search & Destroy or AdAware is when I use IE (very rare occurrence but I have to use it every now and again)--normally I use Netscape. Is there some option(s) I could turn off to make it safer? Active-x or something??? Thanks... Terrie

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