Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Ok this is a little anoying, every day when I check, I find I have cookies and cahe's for websites I visit and ones I don't. Sometimes 100+. When I remove all data, over the next hour or so most of the cookies and cache's return, no matter how many times I remove them.😠
Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
I'm sure Miertreim is right - I rather ignored topsites, never using it & having disabled the page previews a couple of years ago, which I'd mostly forgotten doing. Sorry not to have caught that earlier.
try this in Terminal with Safari quit.
defaults write com.apple.safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy 2
Existing previews will still show, but new ones won't be fetched when topsites recomputes, and hopefully you'll see just the numerous cache items + the occasional rogue 3rd party cookie that I do.
If you want it back to normal
defaults delete com.apple.safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy
for me, I have edited top sites to be only apple.com by removing all the others. I also have RSS turned off (by using never update button in preferences). But maybe, the safari prefetching thing does it anyway..
It would seem that the security update (not Safari) addresses the bug regarding Safari's cookie preference control:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002
Available for: Mac OS X v10.6.8, Mac OS X Server v10.6.8
Impact: Safari may store cookies it is not configured to accept
Description: A synchronization issue existed in CFNetwork's handling of cookie policies. Safari's cookie preferences may not be honored, allowing websites to set cookies that would be blocked were the preference enforced. This update addresses the issue through improved handling of cookie storage.
sadly, the cookie bug persists. I see it in two different MBP's. Setting to always block does nothing.
oops, I was wrong. It is fixed now 🙂
For what it's worth, Security Update 2011-006 appears to have resolved the errant cookie behavior in Safari.
Cookie and Cache problem
