[X4U] Where do they come from?

[faramineux]

On Apr 21, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote:

> When I select "remove individual cookies" in Firefox 11 a window  
> will open and showing a lot of cookies.
> Then I clear all the cookies, but when I select "remove individual  
> cookies" again, all these cookies are there again.
> In that cookies window is a column 'Site' and a column 'Cookie Name'  
> and in front of the name is an horizontal triangle.
> When I make that triangle pointing down I can read 'dummy' in cookie  
> column name.
> Where do all these cookies coming from?
> But when I leave that cookie window open there hardly is a cookie  
> added.  Weird.
>
> Paul Moortgat

Good question Paul! What I have noticed is if you close down Firefox  
after getting rid of the cookies, they will not comeback until you  
visit new sites. But if you keep Firefox opened after cleaning out the  
cookies, they will show up again a short while after that..