cookies, browsers, kvetch kvetch whinge

[redbird]

I was trying to look at freecycle. It uses Yahoo groups. After a bit of futzing around, I succeeded, I'd thought, in telling Netscape that it didn't have to block Yahoo cookies after all (I probably set that three years ago) and thus managed to retrieve my Yahoo password.

Yahoo let me log in and change my password. From there, it urged me to log in again. This has proven impossible. I even took a deep breath and its advice of trying a different browser (IE instead of Netscape). Nada. Zilch. Just messages telling me to enable cookies, after I had done so.

Ah, well, it seems like a good and sensible project, but I shall have to live without it, and vice versa.

Comments

[janetmk.livejournal.com]

I ran into a similar frustrating problem a while back and eventually stumbled onto the solution: I needed to enable javascript for navigator and check the boxes that allow webpages to read and change cookies. This is not on the "cookies" menu--the preference settings are (in Netscape 7) under advanced/scripts&plugins.

[redbird]

Now I'm annoyed.

The Netscape documentation agrees with you. But when I actually go to that part of the preferences setting, I don't have that as one of the options. (At the moment, I have Javascript on for Navigator (though not mail and newsgroups) and all the little boxes of things to let sites do using Javascript checked. There isn't one for cookies.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

ou can join all yahoogroups via email and not have a yahoo ID. That doesn't give you access to archives, but it will get you everything that's new.

Yahoogroups email functions

Subscribe to listname
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Write to the Moderators and Owner of the List:
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Given Yahoo's horrendous privacy policy, I can't imagine why anyone would have an ID there.

K.