General Tips & Info FAQ

Cookie Tip for Netscape users

To keep those cookies from piling up:

Using Windows Explorer (or the command line for those who prefer that route) navigate to the Netscape directory. Then to Users, then to Default (or the specific account) and find the cookies.txt file. Change the cookies.txt file to read-only (in Windows, right click on the file and check the box for read-only, or from the command line, use attrib +r cookies.txt, or there's probably a rmb option in explorer to do this). This gives websites the illusion that they are leaving cookies, and in fact the cookies are cached for the session, but disappear once you close Netscape.

(Caveat: This was posted originally for Netscape 4 users, it may also work for Netscape 6+ but I haven't verified that.)

Thanks to Julian Thomas for this tip!