In previous versions of the toolbar you could set global settings for deletion of things such as cookies, history, etc.

For example:

Tools/Privacy/Settings

Privacy Plugin Settings

Cookies
Disk Cache
History
Address Bar History
Saved Passwords


[ ] Clear on Startup (Clear now button)

[ ] Clear on Shutdown


This no longer seems to be the case. Has this plugin changed or is there another place to set global preferences?

Tks

N

#ndebord

I don't know about the toolbar, but there are setting for many of these items within preferences.

Try EDIT - PREFERENCES - PRIVACY & SECURITY. There are tabs within which cover the items you noted.

James,

Not the same thing at all to my mind. The older method of doing the privacy toolbar gave you control over your settings automatically with a set of rules that you could check on or off.

Now, unless there is a setting I'm missing, the same functions listed above are handled manually, meaning you have to go in and laboriously check settings from Tools/Privacy/Clear Data (four clicks to do what was once a set and forget setting and change if need be).

Not anywhere near the same. There is a setting to globally clear everything, but that is of little help when what I want is to clear only certain items such as history, urls, cache(s) and keep passwords and cookies (I manage cookies better using an external cookie manager).

I don't get the reasoning for this change.

N

I agree about the cookies. I use "Cookie Monster" to handle mine. It will handle three versions of KM plus the rare use of IE.

I don't think I ever used the older method to control the other items.

James,

I too use Cookie Monster. In fact, it is the next thing I added. <G>

N

I do not think the default Privacy Bar functions have changed (some of the syntax has). But as You suggested - it can be custom hacked to fit any needs

Guenter,

It is good to know that you can hack the syntax because to my mind, the new version is a regression, not an improvement.

For example, in the old version, you could set your privacy settings to clear on either or both startup and shutdown: So in my case, I would not check mark either cookies* or passwords, but would set history, url and cache to clear on shutdown. The key is it is automatic and can be changed whenever circumstances change.

Now, if I am reading it properly, you have to manually change this stuff.

To hack it is hard? IF not, I would want to give it a try.

Much thanks,


* for cookies I would use Cookie Monster or similar and for passwords, I would manually edit it outside of KM or internally with the builtin editor.

N

Tools > Privacy > Clear Data > Clear Automatically...

@ndebord: What you are looking for has just moved: "Tools" > "Privacy" > "Clear Data" > "Clear Automatically..."

(OK, I've been a bit late. Thanks misterp.)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/2008 08:56PM by kko.

kko,

You're right. What confused me was the "clear automatically" caption. I thought that meant automatically clear everything, so I did not drill down to see what it actually did do. <sigh>

Much thanks

N