OT: Deleting specific Firefox cookies

Keith keith at caramail.com
Wed Nov 17 02:14:19 UTC 2021


On 11/16/21 4:15 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> On 11/16/21 12:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is ok, I just did a short test and it seems to
>> work. If cookies are important to you, consider to test with a new
>> firefox profile, before accessing an important firefox profile.
>> I don't save cookies and did a quick test with my default profile.
>>
>> Close Firefox > run "sqlitebrowser" > "Open Database" for example
>>
>> .mozilla/firefox/ihwxvng5.default/cookies.sqlite
>>
>> The tab "Browse Data" shows the cookies.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Ralf,
>
> That does indeed show the individual cookies. Now I have to decide
> whether or not it is worth the hassle to do it. Before Mozilla made the
> change all I had to do was open settings and after a couple of clicks I
> had a list of cookies I could select for deletion. Now I would have to
> close all running instances of Firefox, open dbbrowser to make the
> deletions and then reopen multiple instances of Firefox. I guess that's
> what the call new and improved.
>
> Regards,  Jim
>
>

Hamburger menu button->Addons and Themes->Find more addons search
box->put in the word "cookie" and hit enter->See all the results for
Cookie Manager addons that will probably do just what you want and more.

--
Keith




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