Cookie Stumbler eliminates Ad & Tracking cookies and allows you conveniently to maintain only the cookies on your computer which you really want to keep. This eliminates threats to your privacy and helps your web browsers to run faster. It will recognize known Ad/Tracking cookies via definitions which are updated frequently similar to anti-virus software and so far unidentified Ad/tracking cookies via an intelligent heuristics engine, which is built-in. Cookie Stumbler isn't dependent on advertising companies to "allow" users to opt out as some other applications. It does its job independently and it will do so without interfering when you browse the web. Cookie Stumbler is extremely easy to use. Once you have chosen either one of the default selection criteria such as your bookmarks or history or have put the cookies of some sites which you really want to keep on your 'keep-list', you can run the cleaning process automatically to a schedule which suits your needs. The schedules can be built easily and as customized and flexible as you want them to be. Supporting almost every commonly used browser in the market (currently Safari, Firefox, Chromium, Chrome, Camino, OmniWeb, Flash) you can use this program either to investigate exactly what websites are storing on your computer or clean it in one click or just let it run without you even remembering to run it. You can even integrate Cookie Stumbler actions into your own workflow by using our Automator Actions. Whatever you chosen workflow might be: Cookie Stumbler will make your Mac more safe and run smoother.
What's new in this version:
Private Browsing. This mode removes tracking cookies as you browse the web, while allowing useful cookies to be stored on your Mac. It is compatible with all web browsers that Cookie Stumbler supports - no plugins or browser extensions are required.
v1.6 [Aug 2, 2012]
- Adds support for fullscreen viewing. (OS X 10.7+ only).
- Updates help file and adds new section to the "Scheduled Cookie Cleaning" section: "Monitoring your cookie cleaning schedule's activity".
- Cookie Stumbler will now ask you whether you wish to rescan when you're quitting a web browser while Cookie Stumbler's main window is showing.
- Fixes various crashbugs.
- Fixes a bug that prevented schedule completion notifications from being shown.
- Fixes a bug on some systems running OS X 10.6 that crashed Cookie Stumbler during cleaning.
- Fixes an issue that prevented the deletion of OmniWeb 5 cookies.
- Fixes a bug that allowed the creation of multiple schedules with duplicate execution times/special frequencies.
