Cookie Muncher - 1.0.6

Cookie Muncher has almost solved Safari's (and IE's) shortcomings in handling cookies for me. Don't need it for OmniWeb--OW is a model for cookie handling.

Although CM could be enhanced (to remember the window size of listed cookies, and to show which browser's cookies go with which cookie value) it is well worth the registration price.

Well, I did get feedback from Dot Software and here it is (it explains alot );

Hi Philip,

I would think 2 days is a rather okay responding time, especially considering that for me both Monday and Tuesday, which is a holiday across Canada, were days off. I also delayed responding to your email because I just installed Panther last night and I had school up until now. However, your case seems to be isolated because I nor any of my beta testers or users have noticed any problems (apart from a couple cosmetic ones) with Cookie Muncher on Panther. I admit that these people probably have not tried it unregistered (I was going to do that tonight, but I'm instead replying to your email) and may not be using Internet Explorer, which I will also test later on tonight. Further more, I will also issue a refund within 12 hours and you will get an email confirmation from eSellerate.

Here was my response to his email (only fair since i posted his ):

Thank you Tommy,
but school is still in session.
When you set up a company, advertise a product, and exchange money for it there are responsibilities and consequences - it's just a fact.

1) Your market is not just other programmers, the folks installing and trusting your software to work as advertised are lay people who if for
any reason their computers stop working for even a 1/2 hour are in a world of trouble. Deadlines for the small business owners go unmet,
accessing of vital medical information for family members is now locked up in inaccessible files ( fill in your own mellow dramatic scenario )
but know that we Totaly rely on or machines and expect them work when we need them, especially mac owners. Expecting someone to wait
while you 'get around' to it is really irresponsible of you especially knowing that peoples computers and lives are being affected.

2) How could you, while fully knowing that Panther was released, not put a disclaimer on your web site?! Letting us know that it's own creator
had not themselves personally tested it with Panther or Explorer as your email says - that is truly malicious of you. Thinking that your beta testers
have more knowledge of the program than you is pretty lax if you ask me.

3) You have a review in this months MacWorld magazine. This will bring a great deal of attention to Dot Software. People don't know, as I have
just discovered from your email, that you are 1)not a staffed company 2) still in school 3) wait three weeks after the release of Panther to
'try it'. I may not be too computer savvy but I do know that most who program for Mac were already using beta versions long before it came out.

4) Just for clarification I paid for the program first and then had to go back to the site to download it.

5) After removing IE (including all plist's and everything else i could find) and then reloading it, it is still sluggish and does not load pages well
at all which it did very well the night before the CM download. Obviously it changed something somewhere and now i have to suffer for it not
to mention all the wasted time and energy trying to fix and write letters.

I get the feeling from your email that this is a big inconvenience for you. Fine whatever kid. Go right on thinking your a great guy. But to those of
us suffering for your 'hobby company' it feels just like vandalism.
END.

Mostly i think MacWorld magazine should be chewed out for giving the program a 'good' rating (3 mice out of a possible 5 ). I guess they needed filler and to meet a deadline. I also think it's time ths shareware community started policiing itself.
What a grand waste of time all this was.

Recently downloaded (paid) Cookie Muncher on a pristine system.
Did a simple set up and Voila! My OS starts crashing. G4 MMD 1.25 2GB ram Panther 10.3.1 .
Took CM out of Start Up items and still no luck. Repaired Prefs from Install disc. etc. etc.
Only after i removed CM did my system respond normally again. Although IE needed to be uninstalled and then reloaded due to strange behavior.
Tried reinstalling CM again to give it benefit of the doubt but same issues.
Emailed dot software and explained my issues and that I wanted instructions for a refund. NEVER HEARD BACK FROM THEM EVEN AFTER 2ND EMAIL.
For $8 i (they) cost myself a lot of headaches.
In my opinion and obviously many others here - scroll through and see - this is amateur software and you will be very sorry indeed. I have serious suspicions about any positive reports here. Spread the word about Dot Software.

First time I installed, I selected "Camino" as only browser to gather cookies from; nothing happened. Then I added IE & Safari, nothing still.

Trashed ALL files, re-installed. This time, I selected (in Preferences) to gather cookies for IE, Safari, and Camino. I think nothing happened. So, I quit the app, and next day started it up and it "gathered" cookies from all 3 browsers as I watched (progress bar indicated its activity).

Now I had cookies for all 3 browsers, but which cookie belonged to which browser is unknowable. I basically wanted to use this app to manage Camino cookies (and ALL BROWSERS cookies) if it worked well, but Camino and Camino alone's cookies first.

So, trashed all files agasin, re-installed and selected Camino in Preferences when I had app running; again nothing happened. I then added Safari and IE and selected "Save" and still nothing happened.

Don't know what I'm doing "wrong", probably nothing. It just seems to be not consistent enough for me to keep trying. It's too bad, because the one time I did have all cookies "gathered" into Cookie Muncher, it would have been a breeze to manage them, I'm guessing - as I'm the only user I NEVER log out and in, so don't know how that aspect of app figures in in actual use.

Jag 10.2.6 on G3 iMac 700 - latest version of browsers mentioned.

Have been paid user since 10/02. Latest version (1.0.4) is fast and flawless - works as advertised and is great with Safari. Auto trashing cookies not specifically saved when closing makes it a no brainer to use. Has always worked well, and author is diligent about responding to emails about glitches or bugs -- explains nature of problems and works on it until fixed. Using Safari's ad and pop-up blocking together with having Muncher installed makes browsing quick and tidy.