OT: Deleting specific Firefox cookies

Jim Byrnes jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Thu Nov 18 01:47:20 UTC 2021


On 11/16/21 7:41 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 03:38:48PM -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> Firefox has changed the way it handles cookies. I used to be able to see all
>> the individual cookies and delete any I didn't think were beneficial to me.
>> Now all of the cookies are grouped by website and all you see is the total
>> number of cookies from that site.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way to again see the individual cookies and delete
>> specific cookies?
> 
> If you're willing to go to a page on the website from which you want to
> do fine-grained cookie deletion first, then you can do it using the
> browser's developer tools: press F12, go to the Storage tab, and you'll
> find individual cookies listed under Cookies.  You can use the
> right-click context menu to delete individual cookies.
> 

Thanks Colin,

That will work, not as convenient as the old Firefox way so I probably 
won't do it as often.

Regards,  Jim





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