I’m over at my sister’s tonight and I decided to post a few things on the SDMB. She uses Netscape v.4.5 on a cable modem, and has cookies enabled.
After posting, I decided that I wanted to clear my name and password from her browser ('cause who knows what Green Bean would attempt to post in my name – or more likely she’d forget to change the name the next time she posted and people would accuse us of being sock puppets).
The way I tried to handle it was to change my name and/or password when I posted, figuring I would get a wrong password notice and the name would be changed in the browser. I tried it several different times and ways, but every time, when I backed up and tried to post a new post, my correct name and password would be there.
So, my question is how do you clear your name and password from a cookies-enabled browser that you are temporarily using.
Bill
The name and password stay there even after you hit the logout link on the main forums page? I use a lot of computers to which others have access, and I’ve never had a problem with this. Maybe it’s a browser issue. Please post to identify your browser (including version) and we’ll see if we can’t take care of this.
Well, I never thought of hitting the logout link on the main forums page. (In fact, I don’t recall ever seeing that link, possibly because the browsers that I usually use are not cookie-enabled, so I don’t think that link is there.)
Anyway, clicking the log out link seems to work. Thanks, Manny.
Billdo (logging out from Grean Bean’s Computer).
Well just a note to add, the “cookies” feature is enabled by default so if you want to change it then you need to go to you profile and the third or fourth option form the bottom asks you if you want to disable cookies. The problem though is that it does not save your name but it DOES save your password still.
:::mumble:::stoopied MB:::mumble:::
Anyway, this is along the same lines as your OP so I thought I would add.
-N