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Fighting Persistent Cookies and eliminating bloat
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jrb


Joined: 11 Dec 2007
Posts: 972
Location: Smithers, BC, Canada
PostPosted: Sat 27 Nov 2010, 13:15    Post subject:  Fighting Persistent Cookies and eliminating bloat
Subject description: Dealing with Puppy Paranoia		  
Inspired by paranoia as detailed in Evercookies: extremely persistent browser cookies I decided to fight back. Mad Here's how I have begun.

Firstly I setup ROX to show hidden files and folders. (I always do this anyway) Open a ROX window, right click, choose Options-Display and tick Show hidden files.

For Seamonkey I reckoned that the only things I need are my bookmarks, preferences and extensions. Everything else can be started from scratch for each session. With that in mind I copied a virgin .mozilla to /root/.mozilla_new
Code:
cp -fr /initrd/pup_ro2/root/.mozilla /root/.mozilla_new
Then I created /root/.mozilla_bkmrks/seamonkey
Code:
mkdir /root/.mozilla_bkmrks
mkdir /root/.mozilla_bkmrks/seamonkey
Next I copied my existing bookmarks.html, pref.js, and extensions folder from my old /root/.mozilla/seamonkey/#######.default/ (different seamonkey installs have different names for their .default folders so I won't give any code here. Just drag them in with ROX) into /root/.mozilla_bkmrks/seamonkey.

Now delete those files from /root/.mozilla_new/seamonkey/#######.default and drag them in from /root/.mozilla_bkmrks/seamonkey and choose Link(absolute).

Finally create a script file in /root/Startup called browser_renew containing this code. (in /root/Startup rightclick-new-Sript)
Code:
#!/bin/sh
rm -fr /root/.mozilla_old
mv -f /root/.mozilla /root/.mozilla_old
cp -fr /root/.mozilla_new /root/.mozilla

rm -fr /root/.macromedia

Every time you reboot, the .mozilla from your last session will be renamed to .mozilla_old and a fresh .mozilla will be created by copying .mozilla_new to .mozilla.

You will get a fresh install of Seamonkey but your bookmarks and settings will be retained because they are actually stored in .mozilla_bkmrks.

You will have an empty cache as well so your pupsave file will not fill up nearly as much.

I have retained the .mozilla from the previous session (.mozilla_old) just in case something goes amiss. If things are working well you can eliminate that line from the browser_renew script.

I also have set it to get rid of /root/.macromedia as this seems to be of some concern security wise. A new one will be generated automatically each session.

You may want to rename your present /root/.mozilla to something else, maybe /root/.mozilla_bkup just in case things don't work out the first time.


Note: The scripts in /root/Startup are activated quite quickly after your window manager starts IF you have a pupsave file. If not it takes what seems like a long time (60 secs?).

Warning: Shocked If you have FireFox installed then hold off doing this until I write a Firefox howto. Firefox and Seamonkey share the /root/.mozilla folder.
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PostPosted: Sat 27 Nov 2010, 13:16    Post subject:  
Firefox writeup coming
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PostPosted: Sat 27 Nov 2010, 13:16    Post subject:  
Opera writeup coming
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Cust0dian


Joined: 22 Oct 2010
Posts: 28
Location: Russian Federation, St. Petersburg
PostPosted: Tue 28 Dec 2010, 17:57    Post subject:  NEvercookies script
Subject description: Automating process		  
Good day, everyone.

By authority of jrb, I'm posting small script. It will do everything, that was written above.
It is working only with SeaMonkey ver. 2 for now. Wait awhile, I need some time to find out where user data contains in each browser. And I will really appreciate if someone provide me this type of information.

Script was tested in Lupu 5.1.1 and will work for any Puppy based on fifth generation or with SeaMonkey 2 installed. (e.g. Lighthouse 5)

Puppy 4.3.1 uses SeaMonkey 1, and I can't find where it stores extensions, so please help.

To run script you must untar it and make executable:
Arrow either open Terminal in folder with script and type:
Code:
tar -xf nevercookies.tar
chmod a+x nevercookies

Arrow or open Rox left-click on nevercookies.tar, extract it, then right-click nevercookies => File... => Permissions => leave everything as it is and click "OK"

After that simply click (make sure you are not running browser), it will do what we need:
1. Create folder which will override current browser folder (which contains a lot of junk in it).
2. Create folder with user data (bookmarks, preferences, extensions) and link it, so it (and only it) will change.
3. Create a Startup script which will clean browser data on boot. (you can run it manually, simply go to /root/Startup/ and click renew_browser).
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efiguy


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PostPosted: Sun 09 Jan 2011, 23:21    Post subject: Fighting Persistent Cookies and eliminating bloat
Subject description: More browserTech cookie script inside		  
Hi group,
Recently had occasion to learn a bit of Browser Tech, I'm no expert mind you, but wish to share and hope others with more experience will join in.
browzrtech.zip
Description  How-to on browser commands, security settings, some speedup sets, test sites, extensions, prntscns, assembled as a result of learning how server-side commands learn so much about one from the website contact via default settings
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Flash
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Joined: 04 May 2005
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Location: Arizona USA
PostPosted: Mon 10 Jan 2011, 00:55    Post subject:  
efiguy, would you please edit your post to include a short description of what's in your Browser Tech, so everyone doesn't have to download and unzip it just to see what it is?

Thanks. Smile
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8-bit


Joined: 03 Apr 2007
Posts: 3012
Location: Oregon
PostPosted: Mon 10 Jan 2011, 02:53    Post subject:  
I am just curious.
Is there any reason not to just use the plugin of "Better Privacy" in Seamonkey?
It is supposed to remove cookies on exiting from Seamonkey.
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nooby

Joined: 29 Jun 2008
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Location: SwedenEurope
PostPosted: Mon 10 Jan 2011, 04:24    Post subject:  
8Bit, I don't remember details but if not that safer or better privacy is particulary made for persistent cokies then it helps only for the old cookies.

P cookies have some 8 or more different ways to make themselves persistent that is why they have that name Smile But I know nothing.
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cagliostro

Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Posts: 99
Location: Southern California
PostPosted: Mon 10 Jan 2011, 15:33    Post subject:  
I just use the following script for Firefox, but should work in SeaMonkey:

#!/bin/sh
#
cd ~/.mozilla/firefox
cp cookies.sqlite ./nyrs6b6z.default
xmessage -center " COOKIES CLEANED! "


Note: I used ./nyrs6b6z.default because that is my specific Firefox folder, but if you replace this with ./*.default it should work for all installs.

I have Firefox set to clean everything on exit: cache, history, etc. But I leave the box for cookies unchecked. I need some cookies to log into my home page. Maybe you need cookies for TV listings, or for stock listings on a financial page.

So when I install Firefox I visit those sites and set the listings I want on those pages. Then I turn off the internet connection. Then delete all cookies except the four or five I want. I save a copy of this file, cookies.sqlite, to the parent folder, which is ~/.mozilla/firefox.

After browsing, I exit Firefox and everything is cleaned except cookies. Then click on the script at top, and it will copy the original clean cookies file to the Firefox directory (~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default). I've been doing this for years. For a new Firefox I transfer over my userChrome.css, bookmarks.HTML, user.js, and cookies.sqlite, and am ready to go (delete user.js after the first start up).


There was a comment about cache filling up save file.

One can use about:config
browser.cache.disk.parent_directory set this to /mnt/home/firefox-cache.

Then the cache is on the disk partition, never in the save file. (Hope I remember this correctly, like I said all this is in the user.js, so installation is automatic.) Also in this directory I place thumbnails, and link it to ~/.thumbnails so those aren't in the save file either.
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