How to protect your system from new super cookies
Super cookies have started featuring on the menu cards of many websites, some of which are dubious in character. What are they? How can you protect your system from these elements or mange them?
In addition to the classic cookies that are only up to four kilo bytes in size, thre are much bigger Flash cookies and voracious domain memory objects (the so-called DOM cookies are also new). They grab up to five megabytes of space on the hard disk of your PC to store the information of an external website. Firefox 2.0 is the first browser to support these new standard memory objects. The cookie management of the browser does not display these objects along with the stored data, which means that they cannot be deleted.
Because you cannot know about the content of super cookies, you should block them except when you want to view a trustworthy website, which cannot be displayed properly if DOM cookies are not activated.
How to get rid of annoying help text in Firefox 2
You can block the super cookies with the advanced configuration of Firefox. For this, type ‘about.config’ in the address bar of the browser and press [Enter], search for ‘dom.storage.enabled’ in the list. Then right-click on this entry and select the ‘toggle’ context command to change its value to ‘false’.
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