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Quickly and easily clear selective data in Safari 3 Beta Web Browsers
Haven't seen this anywhere, so in case you haven't noticed: Safari 3 Public Beta has a quick way to purge those pesky website icons or "favicons" that show up in the address bar. Just select Reset Safari. . . and a nice dialog box pops up with check boxes giving you the ability to not only clear your favicons, but your cache, Google searches, cookies, and more.

In other words, you can now choose to only reset certain elements of Safari, not the entire thing. This enables you to quickly clear only your cookies and cache, for instance, but not loose your bookmarks and saved passwords. The also is a much faster way to clear you favicons than the old method of navigating to your Library » Safari » Icons folder and deleting the icons.db.

[robg adds: I hadn't even thought to look at Reset in the beta; this is a much nicer option than the current 2.x version's "reset everything" approach.]
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Quickly and easily clear selective data in Safari 3 Beta
Authored by: ashevin on Oct 15, '07 09:12:12AM

I hate it when my bookmarks get loose. You think 52 card pickup is bad? Try rounding up stray bookmarks!



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Quickly and easily clear selective data in Safari 3 Beta
Authored by: deebster on Oct 15, '07 01:18:36PM

Excellent hint. I'd stayed well away from the Reset Safari option after hearing what it did in Safari 2. Glad to see it's become useful.



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