The cookiesafe firefox extension can probably mitigate some of the privacy risk, krazykiwi. It's like a noscript extension for cookies. You can decide which sites you allow cookies for.
krazykiwi - wrote: > Joel Liu wrote: > > Go to FF 3 == > Tools === > Options == >Privacy tab == > Check accept third party cookies . > > Hopefully it will solve your problem. > > > Hi Joel, > > While I greatly appreciate that you tracked this down to a cause, I'm not quite entirely happy. > > There are serious privacy concerns with 3rd party cookies, and it is not without good reason that the preference returned to FF 3 (and is not only present now in nearly all other mainstream browsers, but the default in some.) > > Whatever technical problem you are solving with this was clearly not necessary before the update that caused this problem, I would really appreciate if you could at least put taking another look at the solution for alternate solutions on the developer todo lists.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2497
krazykiwi - wrote:
> Joel Liu wrote:
> > Go to FF 3 == > Tools === > Options == >Privacy tab == > Check accept third party cookies .
> > Hopefully it will solve your problem.
>
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> While I greatly appreciate that you tracked this down to a cause, I'm not quite entirely happy.
>
> There are serious privacy concerns with 3rd party cookies, and it is not without good reason that the preference returned to FF 3 (and is not only present now in nearly all other mainstream browsers, but the default in some.)
>
> Whatever technical problem you are solving with this was clearly not necessary before the update that caused this problem, I would really appreciate if you could at least put taking another look at the solution for alternate solutions on the developer todo lists.