Safari Overriding Site Data?

I am brand new to the Mac experience (MacBook Pro) after many decades as a Windows user. There is a web site where one can access a basic stock price chart and then customize it. The objective is to save the customized additions, even after one leaves the site, so the they are still there on your return to the site. In Windows, using Google Chrome, for example, this is done in a tab. Chrome instructions are set to whereby one can re-access that site (via the tab) "where one left off." Thus, one's customized changes are still there.

In Safari, my site is saved in Favorites, where it can be accessed repeatedly throughout the day. Evidently, other Favorite sites accessed must override the site info, because when I return to the chart site, all of my customized changes are gone, and I am back with the basic building block.

I am sure that my vocabulary above is no doubt not clear, but I am looking for a way around this issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Gordon

Houston, TX

MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 10.3.3, Not sure of IOS; 10.12.6?

Posted on Oct 17, 2017 5:10 PM

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Grant Bennet-Alder

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Posted on Oct 19, 2017 11:55 AM

It is the customized version that I Bookmarked to Favorites in Safari.

Your understanding of how bookmarks interact with THIS site is not correct. When you save a Bookmark, the only thing saved is what is showing in the URL bar that top of Safari.

For sites like ebay or Amazon, you save a thing that may go on for three lines and has tons of information in it. Those site use the URL to hold some of their customization.

For this site, it is ONLY a pointer to the site main page, and does not include ANY of your customization. Saving a bookmark of an older versions of the page will not help you. All these bookmark will be exactly the same. If you lookout the saved bookmark, it is ONLY the URL of the site main page, and nothing more. Nothing more can be saved in a bookmark, because nothing more is being added to the URL.

I tried the site (which i never visited before). I made two changes, then left the site. I now have cookies and data from this site.

This site saves your customizations as cookies AND data. If you have not allowed the site to save cookies, you will not get your customizations presented to you when you return to the site.

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Oct 19, 2017 9:18 AM in response to tygb

Yes, these are all checked.

Oct 19, 2017 7:58 AM in response to Colonel_Biggs

when you "customize" a web page with your data, the customization has to be saved somewhere.

Companies do not want to have to create server farms just to store a small amount of data from a huge array of clients. so they don't. They typically store all that information about you back onto YOUR computer, in the form of cookies and web site data.

The newest version of Safari is about allowing YOU to determine what gets stored. This is determined by several settings. The first is allowing cookies and data storage. This is controlled by

safari > preferences > Privacy

the Manage Web site data button should also be explored.

Another common place to store stuff uses Flash Player"

System preferences > Flash Player > Storage

if the site uses Flash, you should expect that some data is stored used flash Player's allowed storage as well.

>> If you have Blocked any of these, your personal information cannot be stored, and so each time you go back to the site, you get a new "uncustomized" screen. But a well-crafted site should warn you that your customizations have not been saved, and tell you how to fix that.

It has Nothing to do with bookmarks.

Oct 19, 2017 9:30 AM in response to Colonel_Biggs

flash player (if you have it installed) has it own preferences under

SYSTEM Preferences -- not inside Safari

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The Safari preferences has TEN different Preference panes. Each is accessed by clicking on the Icons across the top of the pane.The screen shot is what shows once you click on "Privacy" in the header.

Your "Privacy" tab may not be identical to mine, but should have similar information, as I am running safari 11, in a slightly older version of MacOS.

what web site is this that is giving you such a hard time?

Oct 21, 2017 3:47 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

I don't believe that the site is the issue, since I don't have problems with it using IE or Chrome.

Of interest, if I load various sites from Favorites, and then wish to return to the chart site, if I use the History/Back tabs (repeatedly, if necessary), I am able to bring up the "adjusted" site with my alterations. The system first asks if I "wish to re-submit my form," to which I answer "Yes." So, Mac is saving the latest site visits somewhere. The History/Back routine will work for the time being.

Thanks for your inputs.

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