Safari 4's Messy Trail

Posted by kdawson on Saturday May 23, 2009 @07:53AM from the if-disk-space-were-infinite-and-free dept.

Signum Ignitum writes "Safari 4 comes with a slew of cool new features, but extensive data generation combined with poor cleanup make for a data trail that's a privacy nightmare. Hidden files with screenshots of your history, files that point back to Web pages you've visited and cleared from your history, and thousands of XML files that track the changes in the pages in your Top Sites can add up to gigabytes of information you didn't know was kept about you." Some of Safari's bloat is kept in quite obscure locations; it takes a fairly knowledgeable user to find it and clean it up. You can avoid some of the worst of it by disabling Top Sites.

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Re:Reset Safari by Anonymous Coward · 2009-05-23 09:04 · Score: -1, Flamebait

This is a bit sketchy, I will agree. However, it does appear like you can remove most of this. In the menu bar, click "Safari > Reset Safari." Make sure that reset top sites and "Remove all webpage preview images" is selected.
But why should I trust that, or Apple at all? Jobs is a maniac, worse than Ballmer ever was. Windows 7 doesn't do this stuff. Apple is the crime.
Re:Oh that Apple by Mr.+DOS · 2009-05-23 10:38 · Score: -1, Flamebait

"Yes, I saw your new hip! It looks great!"
--- Mr. DOS
Re:beta software by bonch · 2009-05-23 11:31 · Score: -1, Flamebait

You can't even write English properly. Why should anyone care about you?