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Cookies in Google search results

Gordon · 2008-09-09 20:43:44

I recently got fed up of deleting cookies on my browser. Some cookies I don't mind being there but I have started rejecting all cookies I don't want. It's a bit painful sometimes the way Firefox deals with this but that's another matter. I did a search on Google (for cheese strings) and when the Google results appeared I…

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09-09-2008 9:43pm

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Gordon

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I recently got fed up of deleting cookies on my browser. Some cookies I don't mind being there but I have started rejecting all cookies I don't want. It's a bit painful sometimes the way Firefox deals with this but that's another matter.

I did a search on Google (for cheese strings) and when the Google results appeared I saw that the top result was trying to put a cookie in my browser. How the fup do they do this?!

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#2 10-09-2008 6:24am
cgarvey

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Sounds like Firefox is prefetching .. http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/ht/disableprefetch.htm

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#3 10-09-2008 11:05am
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Interesting, I wonder if this will slightly speed up my searches as my connection is slow. Thanks a mil cgarvey.

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#4 11-09-2008 11:00am
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Dunno what you mean by slow, but on 12-16Kbps dialup, it certainly makes a difference alright. Dunno will you notice that on a "slow" broadband connection, though.

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