Cookies...

[areteus]

Not the ones you eat with milk... the electronic type.

There is something odd with my PC and the way it seems to handle cookies at the moment. Some of them (my e-mail, this forum, a few other forums, facebook etc) it saves fine and I can visit those sites without needing to log in everytime. Other sites (Twitter being one, a few others including my bank - which only saves part of it for understandable security reasons...) don't seem to save anything and ask me for a login every time I use them.

So, does anyone out there know if there is a setting I need to click to make this work so I can tick 'remember me' on all sites and know that the next time I try to use it the login details will be there?

[alleycat]

Most browsers have a setting for how to handle cookies. If you're using Firefox it's under Tools.

Frankly, I think it's better to delete all cookies when you close the browser.

[areteus]

No, tried that... changed the settings and nothing changed. I suspect there is something critical wrong with my registry... the fact it only fails with some sites, for example.

I prefer to leave them in because there is nothing critical in my accounts I don't mind others looking at (and those that have critical info, I simply untick the remember me box) and it is an enormous faff to have to log in and out all the time.

[Matera the Mad]

Cookies from secure logins -- banks, etc. -- should die, else anyone with access to your computer (which can happen more easily than we all like to think) would be automatically logged in -- and godforbid you should let your browser remember the password.