wierd firefox issue w/ nytimes.com

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Wed Feb 25 03:18:39 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:01:58PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
>well, this did work.  the culprit is content-prefs.sqlite, which i guess
>stores site-specific preferences which somehow get automatically set
>when you visit the site.  I'd really like to be able to just remove the
>preferences for nytimes.com, but there's no obvious interface to the
>database from within firefox, and i'm not familiar enough with sqlite to
>feel comfortable just deleting an entry -- though i guess i probably
>could do that and try.  

I see that you have solved your problem, but if anyone feels like
exploring an sqlite database, like the one bundled with Firefox, there
is a Firefox plugin for managing sqlite databases.  It's a handy tool
when you are dealing with a database you don't yet know.
-- 

yours,

William

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