IE cookies in my SeaMonkey?

Hi all,

I pretty much use SeaMonkey exclusively so I was surprised to find a ton of cookies in IE.

Since it's obvious I'm clueless as to how IE cookies get set when I use SeaMonkey, does anyone have a quick "why "?

TIA.

 

I have noticed the same thing. I may go for weeks without using IE, and the "use" is due to the fact that some dingbat page opens in IE, rather than in my default browser, which is Firefox. Looking at the content of Temp and Trmporary Internet Files, I would say that they are in Windows, and IE is part of Windows.

 

Hi westside,

I know that IE is part of Windows, but isn't SeaMonkey its own "entity "; in that it doesn't use IE and it's just installed on Windows?

I've used IE exclusively for a day and there hasn't been a single cookie in SM.

I wonder if Linux or other OS users that have IE and SM, FF, TB, or another browser, have noticed the same thing?

 

Hi TonyT,

You wrote: "The Windows Cookies folder can accumulate files because some applications may place cookies there <snip> [and] may invoke instances of an iexplore.exe process when connecting to their update servers. "

OK, I'll buy that. However, it happens when I'm just surfing and not updating. So, some websites invoke an iexplore.exe process regardless of the browser?

It's not crucial, just annoying that I have to clean IE cookies, but is there a way to stop this?

 

Some websites will not invoke Firefox, which is my default, opening IE, instead. This is very common when I am asked to fill a survey after uninstalling a program.
And, there will be no foreign cookies in Firefox (or Seamonkey), but the reverse will be true. I, never, implied, that IE cookies would be in Seamonkey, and did not imply that that Seamonkey cookies would be in IE. I find them in Local Settings|Temporary Internet Files.