Opera Wishlist: Delete Unused Cookies
Friday, 20. July 2007, 20:57:26
Delete Unused Cookies. Anyone who enables cookies has hundreds of them on their hard drive, but there isn't a very easy way to clean all your cookies from your computer except the ones you want to keep. If I clear cookies from all websites, then sites that I regularly visit won't recognize me and I will need to log in again. Many sites use cookies for login information -- fortunately the wand exists, but some logins aren't saved with the wand for some reason. Furthermore, some sites use cookies to set your preferences ("display 100 search results per page" for example). By cleaning my web history by deleting all cookies, I lose this precious information. But there are sites out there that I visit once from a random google search to find the answer to a question. Some of those sites like unneeded, unused cookies on my computer.
Solutions:
1) I think the easiest way to clean up cookies in Opera would be to remove stale cookies: cookies that haven't been accessed in say 90 days.
2) I don't know if Opera records how many times a cookie has been accessed, but a cookie that has been accessed 2 times versus 100 times within the past 3 months can safely be deleted.
3) Add a checkbox to the cookie manager to keep certain domains from being deleted. Then delete the remaining cookies that are not secure from deletion.
Daniel's wishlist
Solutions:
1) I think the easiest way to clean up cookies in Opera would be to remove stale cookies: cookies that haven't been accessed in say 90 days.
2) I don't know if Opera records how many times a cookie has been accessed, but a cookie that has been accessed 2 times versus 100 times within the past 3 months can safely be deleted.
3) Add a checkbox to the cookie manager to keep certain domains from being deleted. Then delete the remaining cookies that are not secure from deletion.
Daniel's wishlist
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Christian # 28. July 2007, 02:11
In Tools - Preferences - Advanced - Cookies: check "Accept all cookies" and "Delete new cookies when exiting Opera"
For the pages you want to have cookies remain in place you can use site preferences Cookies and uncheck "Delete new cookies when exiting Opera"
The advantage of your approach is that it doesn't need user any action. The advantage of my Site preferences is that there are much less cookies in general and you don't have cookies on pages that you visit more often but where you don't need or want the cookies.
Ice Ardor # 28. July 2007, 07:09
I just figured it could be easier than it is, but I'll try your solution more extensively for the time being. Thanks, ResearchWizard.
Anonymous # 11. November 2008, 14:59
A commercial product called SecuredPrivacy works for opera also...