The old "add-on" enabling you to delete all but a few selected cookies is "not compatible" w/ Quantam. How to avoid repeatedly going thru the whole cookie list?
It is annoying to have to repeatedly spend several minutes culling through a long list of cookies (most of which spring back all too soon) hitting delete a few hundred times, but having in the process to also carefully NOT hit delete on 20 or 30 key access cookies for certain sites which one really needs. Having an efficient way to effectively delete most cookies often but always save a mostly unchanging small minority of cookies seems really really basic to privacy protection, and I have trouble imagining why Mozilla hasn't made a "save selected cookies, delete all others" function part of the standard Firefox package all along. There at least used to be an "add-on" for this (apparently). Now even that doesn't work any more.
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What about these addons? They work and they usually have white/blacklists of cookies.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/a-cookie-manager/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies-1/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cookiebro/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cookies-manager/
TyDraniu said
What about these addons? They work and they usually have white/blacklists of cookies. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/a-cookie-manager/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies-1/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cookiebro/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cookies-manager/
Thanks, but all except one of these are apps for automatic deletion of cookies or self deleting cookies. Not at all what I am looking for. By the comments, the one remaining app here is rather a mess to use, and I noticed no indication that it does what I am in search of either. (DKinCH)
Hi you can set things up in Options to allow the cookies then when close have them delete. To keep cookies you want you would need to go back in and make a change, reload the page then go back and make the changes again. My Options are set as follows : History Firefox will use Custom Settings uncheck in Private Browsing Remember my browsing & Download Remember Search Form History Accept Cookies from Websites Accept third party cookies Keep until I close Firefox uncheck Clear History
So would need when want to keep cookies go in and change Keep until I close Firefox to always. Get your cookies then change the setting back again.
Works for me.........best option I have come across. I only have a dozen cookies, rest are all deleted when I close Firefox.
Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.
Thanks for the suggestion, Pkshadow, which however unfortunately makes basically no sense to me. I see the options you mention under "Privacy and Security" / "History," but I cannot imagine how "Keep until I close Firefox "saves" the maybe 30 cookies I want, or how changing (when?) that to "Always" (keep) would delete the probably 300 I don't want.
This unclear suggestion seems to be implying that there is some way to pick out certain cookies which will not be removed when "rest are all deleted when I close Firefox." If that is actually true, then I would like to know how to single out individual cookies, in this way: as exceptions from deleting, but WITHOUT also keeping the other circa 270 cookies. I certainly don't see any such options next to the list of cookies itself. The only possibilities shown there are "remove selected" or "remove all." "Remove selected" which is exactly the clumsy endlessly repeated time-consuming hunt and peck approach I am stuck with now, and want a better substitute for.
Is a exactly as stated, sorry you can not figure it. It keeps the cookies I want as said. Sorry there is no add-ons due to security risk. Manually go through and edit. Might want to do that before cookies add up to 300. Though 10mins is all it takes to do that.
Sorry there is no other help for you. G'luck