Comments on: Cookies and Logins http://gfmorris.com/2005/03/03/cookies-and-logins/ The Life and Times of Geof F. Morris Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:52:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jason http://gfmorris.com/2005/03/03/cookies-and-logins/comment-page-1/#comment-3912 Jason Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:42:45 +0000 http://ijsm.org/archives/2005/03/03/cookies-and-logins/#comment-3912 Geof, I just emailed you the answer, but for the sake of everyone else, there is now a pref in Mozilla and Firefox that allows you to modify the maximum cookies per host. To quote from my email: In the address bar of Mozilla or Firefox, type "about:config" and go there; you'll see your configuration. Type "cookie" into the filter at the top, and you should get filtered down to those prefs related to cookies. Look for the line "network.cookie.maxPerHost" -- if it's not there, then again, the default is 50. If it IS there, edit it to whatever you want; if it's not there, then right-click, choose New and then Integer, add it and make its value what you want it to be. Note that there's another pref, "network.cookie.maxNumber", that governs the TOTAL maximum number of cookies, and obviously the maxPerHost can't exceed that. I totally agree that this is stupid, both to have any limits at ALL and to make those limits only changeable through this stupid interface, but once I "won" the fight to be able to modify the limits on the user side at ALL, I lost the energy to continue fighting to eradicate them altogether. Geof, I just emailed you the answer, but for the sake of everyone else, there is now a pref in Mozilla and Firefox that allows you to modify the maximum cookies per host. To quote from my email:

In the address bar of Mozilla or Firefox, type “about:config” and go there; you’ll see your configuration. Type “cookie” into the filter at the top, and you should get filtered down to those prefs related to cookies. Look for the line “network.cookie.maxPerHost” — if it’s not there, then again, the default is 50. If it IS there, edit it to whatever you want; if it’s not there, then right-click, choose New and then Integer, add it and make its value what you want it to be.

Note that there’s another pref, “network.cookie.maxNumber”, that governs the TOTAL maximum number of cookies, and obviously the maxPerHost can’t exceed that.

I totally agree that this is stupid, both to have any limits at ALL and to make those limits only changeable through this stupid interface, but once I “won” the fight to be able to modify the limits on the user side at ALL, I lost the energy to continue fighting to eradicate them altogether.

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