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AgentME on May 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Self-Destructing Cookies

Can't you already set Firefox (and Chrome?) to only keep cookies around for the session?

hosay123 on May 19, 2014 [–]

This deletes cookies /during/ the session. After you close a tab, any cookies unique to that tab's history are cleared

mikro2nd on May 19, 2014 | [–]

And not just when you close a tab... also a short time (configurable, default 10s) after you navigate away from a site in an "old" tab.

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