Ubuntu and flash cookies

[Basil Chupin]

On 01/10/2010 16:01, Doug wrote:
> On 09/30/2010 11:00 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> On 01/10/2010 01:52, Adam Funk wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> On 2010-09-30, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>> Here's a news article about flash cookies:
>>>> http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110838/cookies-cause-bitter-backlash?mod=family-kids_parents
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have knowledge of them and whether they affect ubuntu or
>>>> Linux browsers/software in general?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> They do.  I installed the BetterPrivacy add-on in Firefox and
>>> discovered I had flash cookies going back well over a year.  I now
>>> have it set to delete them after 90 minutes and when I close Firefox.
>>>
>>> http://netticat.ath.cx/BetterPrivacy/BetterPrivacy.htm
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Thanks for this - didn't know about this Addon. Now installed - and
>> these cookies now won't last 2 seconds on this computer.
>>
>> BC
>>
>>
>>      
> I went to the netticat...website and snapped on the blue gadget at the
> top of
> the page (this was in Windows) and nothing happened.  I went to the Wiki
> page and found a link for windows and snapped on it and was able to install.
> However, the page has downloads for windows and mac os-X, but nothing
> for Linux.
> I went to the main page in Linux and snapped on the blue gadget and again
> nothing happened. How did you d/l this for Linux? I'd like to put this in
> PcLinuxOs, Ubuntu, and Debian.  (PCLO is a KDE distro, the other two are
> Gnome, if it matters.)
>
> Tried to get file with apt-get install.  System said it was doing something
> about dependencies (I forget the wording) and then said it couldn't find
> BetterPrivacy. (PcLOs.)
>
> Please bear in mind that I'm a tyro with file management, etc. in Linux.
> If it doesn't show in Synaptic, or the file-getters in Debian or Ubuntu,
> I usually can't get the file!
>
> --doug
>    

Well, I did nothing special except to do what FF "told" me to do.

I clicked on Tools/Addons/Get Addons/Browse All Addons then searched for 
the addon. Clicked on the Add to Firefox...and installed it.

Nothing really mind-boggling.

The only thing I had to do is to restart FF, as the answer to the 
question after the addon is installed, and then configure the addon.

I don't know why you had to got to (?)netticat to do any of this.

Your Firefox should automatically select the correct version to install 
when you go to Tools/Addons/Get Addons etc.

BC

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