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Why are cookies even persisted on disk in the first place when such an option is enabled?
by jbverschoor 8y ago
Why are cookies even persisted on disk in the first place when such an option is enabled?
- colejohnson66 8y agoI’m guessing here, but maybe it’s in case of a crash, it can reload them back when you reopen the browser?
- adem 8y agoI can imagine that multiple tabs/windows don't share the same address space, so in case of opening the same website on another browser instance, saving to disk would make sure that the cookie is exposed to other running processes as well.
- GordonS 8y agoSaving to disk is probably one of the simplest ways of sharing data between processes, but it's far from the only one (e.g. named pipes)