flash cookies

[Joel Gomberg]

On 09/08/2009 01:24 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

>
> It appears to have an undesirable side effect, firefox-bin is stuck at 99%
> cpu despite killing it and restarting it. Several times.  I fixed a bite to
> eat and it had timed out with an advisory it was taking longer than expected
> and I could cancel, so I did.
>
> That brought FF back to life and I selected tools>BetterPrivacy to bring up
> its prefs and un-install it.  That was about 15 minutes ago, but so far only
> the bare outline of that windows frame has been drawn
>
> This does not appear to be a usable utility.

I had this same sad experience at first.  It gets stuck looking for the 
directory where the LSO's [flash cookies] are stored.  Just set it manually from 
the better privacy add-on options menu.  It's 
~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects

-- 
Joel