[Tfug] Clearing Firefox-related cache, configs, etc

[Eric Gearhart]

Claude - Flash has its own cookie cache. That one has bitten me
before, in a similar way to what you describe. Clearing Firefox's
cache doesn't clear Flash's cookie cache.

A quick Google of "flash clear cookie cache" reveals the following link:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html


On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Claude Rubinson <cjr at grundrisse.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So, I'm having various Firefox-related problems that I suspect are
> related to Firefox's cache and/or Flash's caching and/or Java's
> caching and/or something else that I haven't thought of.  Basically,
> the issue is that I've got a few different websites that simply won't
> behave properly under Firefox/Iceweasel.  The most prominent (recent)
> example is Blackboard, the online learning webapp that my school (UHD)
> uses.  When I enter my login credentials, I get erroneously redirected
> to another (Flash-based) webapp from my school.  It's worth pointing
> out that UHD's various web apps are *really* kludgey, with a number of
> IE-specific hacks, browser-id checking, etc.  That being said, with
> adequate browser-id spoofing, I'm generally able to get my work done.
> (Incidentally, Google Chrome pretty much "just works," although I'm
> not sure exactly why.)