On occasion, the single sign-on authentication for a few of the systems I work with stops working due to an issue with the cookies stored in my web browser. The solution is simple enough; delete the cookies, and Bob’s your uncle. I don’t, however, want to delete all cookies, as that would mean that all of my logged-in sessions stop working. Instead, I want to delete the cookies for the site or sites affected by the issue. Here’s how:
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Cookies!
Over the course of the last few weeks, you may have come across this message when visiting the site:
If you wonder why, there are two reasons. The first is that I want to be open and honest about most things, and this site is one of those things. The second, which is why it happened now, rather than at some point down the line, is that the EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications took effect for Norway, as a signatory to the EEA agreement. If you click the link in the picture, you will be taken to the cookie policy page of my site, which tells you about the external cookies, as well as shows you where to find the privacy policies of the external cookies used. -
GMail notifier displays emails in someone elses inbox
Like a few of my previous posts, today’s post is a direct result of my girlfriend using my computer. After she’d been using it to check her email and so on, I noticed that, even though my account was logged into GMail notifier, or even if it wasn’t logged in at all, it’d notify me of email that patently belonged in her inbox, and indeed was not existent in my inbox.
I was puzzled. I use Firefox as my default web browser, and so does my girlfriend, usually. Turns out she hadn’t been the day in question, instead she’d been using Internet Explorer.
Luckily, this is a simple problem to resolve, and here’s how:
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