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OmniWeb Help : Reference : OmniWeb Preferences : Security

Security

The Security preferences allow you to control various aspects of JavaScript, Java, and cookies. For blocking JavaScript pop-up windows and advertisements, see the Ad Blocking preferences.

Security Preferences Screenshot
The Security Preferences pane.

Web programs

Enable JavaScript: When enabled, allows scripts on web pages to run. This is often required for functionality on many websites.

Allow scripts to reorder windows: When enabled, web pages using scripts can change the order of your windows on screen. This is most commonly used to send pop-up windows in behind all of your other windows so you see them only when closing your main browser window.

Allow scripts to resize windows: Some web pages use scripts to adjust the size of browser windows. You can prevent this by disabling this setting.

Enable Java: Allows you to prevent OmniWeb from automatically loading Java applets embedded into web pages.

Click to run applets: With this option enabled, OmniWeb will draw a placeholder for Java applets that you can click in order to run the applet. This prevents Java applets from running automatically when the page loads, but still lets you load them when desired.

Cookies

Cookies are small bits of information that web sites can store on your computer. Most often, cookies are used to store information such as a login name, or items in a shopping cart when logged into various websites.

OmniWeb can not prevent a website from sending you cookies, and even if you are not accepting cookies, OmniWeb still stores the information about the cookie so you can view it and set a custom behavior for the cookie if you desire. When rejecting cookies, OmniWeb will never send the information back to the original web server so it appears to the server as though you have rejected the cookie.

See Cookies for more information.

Accept cookies: When enabled, OmniWeb will allow websites to read back any cookies they set.

Only from the current site: When enabled, OmniWeb will only accept cookies that originate from the same web site that you are currently viewing. Advertising on web pages often comes from third-party servers, and those servers will try to set cookies when OmniWeb requests the advertising content, allowing them to recognize you on any website that uses their advertising services.

Discard when quitting OmniWeb: OmniWeb will automatically discard cookies when quitting.

Show cookies: When in the main application preferences, this displays a list of all cookies stored by OmniWeb for every website. When viewing this sheet through Site Specific preferences, only those cookies set by the current site will be displayed.

See Cookies for more information.

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