Safari - delete permanent cookies

Permanent cookies are a pain. I don't want to save any permanent cookies on my system.

Firefox allows me to automatically dump all permanent cookies when closing the browser:

Safari has no such option. Apple - this is a suggestion for you.

I have been tricking browsers into dumping cookies since 2001. For Netscape Navigator on Unix, it was easy. Simply symlink the cookies.txt file to /dev/null :) This forced every cookie to be treated as a session cookie.

For Safari, I had to write a wrapper script.

1. Go to /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS
2. Rename "Safari" to "Safari1"
3. Create a shell script called "Safari" in the same directory as follows

#!/bin/sh

rm -f ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist

${0}1 $*

rm -f ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist

This will cause Safari to erase all cookies upon launching and exiting. Crude, but works.