Reviews for Cookie Manager
Cookie Manager by Rob W
Review by joebt
Rated 3 out of 5
by joebt, 7 years agoThanks for beginning a cookie manager for Fx 57+. I know it's brand new & takes a lot of work. Just trying to give some useful suggestions.
1) Re: Taurean75's comment: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/a-cookie-manager/reviews/896808/ - -
yes, I think they meant as in the link you posted: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/user_interface/Popups.
That's the way many addons provide menus, where options may require frequent changing.
2) If I understand, why have any addon open in a NEW TAB, instead of using a toolbar icon? Not a requirement for Fx 57 / webextensions? Or just the fastest way to get Cookie Manager up & running?
Most Fx 57 ready addons I use allow adding icons with drop menus to toolbar. Few require using about:addons to *change* (most) options - especially for cookies.
3) Suggestion: post a few more screenshots on MAO w/ some explanations. Probably entice more users to try it. I see Cookie Monster's dev has pulled it from AMO. Lots of users will be looking for replacement.
Keep up the good work. For ideas, I'd look at features in the more popular cookie managers - that aren't updating to webextensions.
If you want feedback of what's most important to users to implement 1st, maybe setup a support page on http://forums.mozillazine.org, as other addon devs did. One post could be a poll for wish list.
I could tell you some cookie features I've used most - for years, & read others say were important to them, but it'd make this review long(er). Maybe you don't need ideas for now. :) But, feel free to PM me.
Edited review 08/13/2017: correct typos
1) Re: Taurean75's comment: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/a-cookie-manager/reviews/896808/ - -
yes, I think they meant as in the link you posted: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/user_interface/Popups.
That's the way many addons provide menus, where options may require frequent changing.
2) If I understand, why have any addon open in a NEW TAB, instead of using a toolbar icon? Not a requirement for Fx 57 / webextensions? Or just the fastest way to get Cookie Manager up & running?
Most Fx 57 ready addons I use allow adding icons with drop menus to toolbar. Few require using about:addons to *change* (most) options - especially for cookies.
3) Suggestion: post a few more screenshots on MAO w/ some explanations. Probably entice more users to try it. I see Cookie Monster's dev has pulled it from AMO. Lots of users will be looking for replacement.
Keep up the good work. For ideas, I'd look at features in the more popular cookie managers - that aren't updating to webextensions.
If you want feedback of what's most important to users to implement 1st, maybe setup a support page on http://forums.mozillazine.org, as other addon devs did. One post could be a poll for wish list.
I could tell you some cookie features I've used most - for years, & read others say were important to them, but it'd make this review long(er). Maybe you don't need ideas for now. :) But, feel free to PM me.
Edited review 08/13/2017: correct typos
Developer response
posted 7 years ago> Curious-why open an addon in a new tab?
When I wrote this extension many years ago, I wanted to only enable it when I wanted to edit cookies, which is rarely.
When I published the add-on to Firefox, the initial use case is Firefox for Android, which does not have an extension button (as of Firefox 55, it is possible).
In version 1.3, I have added an option to not automatically open the add-on upon startup, and also an extension button to quickly access the cookie manager via the extension button.
3) The add-on is functional, but the UI is not really that strong. I expect the UI to be improved in one of the next versions, so I haven't published a screenshot yet.
> If you want feedback (...) maybe setup a support page
I have published the source code on Github, together with an issue tracker @ https://github.com/Rob--W/cookie-manager/issues
When I wrote this extension many years ago, I wanted to only enable it when I wanted to edit cookies, which is rarely.
When I published the add-on to Firefox, the initial use case is Firefox for Android, which does not have an extension button (as of Firefox 55, it is possible).
In version 1.3, I have added an option to not automatically open the add-on upon startup, and also an extension button to quickly access the cookie manager via the extension button.
3) The add-on is functional, but the UI is not really that strong. I expect the UI to be improved in one of the next versions, so I haven't published a screenshot yet.
> If you want feedback (...) maybe setup a support page
I have published the source code on Github, together with an issue tracker @ https://github.com/Rob--W/cookie-manager/issues
119 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by gmonly, 2 months agoseems to work good, the cookie quick manager would not work for me. this one not only lets you delete some, it also lets you edit them
- Rated 4 out of 5by jean f..., 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15974441, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aidan Stewart, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by MartyGreg, a year agoFor a normal user who wants to see all cookies and be able to delete some or all, this is unusable.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18054980, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Yahoshu Masih, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13768161, 2 years agoLet me find a cookie that neither Firefox nor the most popular cookie extension would. Thanks!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Laconia, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by strigoi, 2 years agoThis add-on doesn't work with the latest FF v, which version can I use to have this extension working please?
- Rated 5 out of 5by FreeLibre, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Illuminator, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by John Doe, 2 years agoThis addon is great for Firefox. But there are no Chrome cookie addon that supports importing from this addon's exported cookies. They (cookie addons available on Chrome web store) doesn't recognize JSON cookie file that exported by Cookie Manager. I'd love to see Chrome version of Cookie Manager!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rioniil, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Александр, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16975662, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by malex, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Korwin, 3 years agoНужно было дополнение, которое позволило бы управлять cookies-ами в выбранном контейнере. В идеале — фильтровать по доменам, переносить из контейнера в контейнер и удалять. "Cookie Manager" в этом дополнении по сравнению с таковым в "Cookie Quick Manager" не столь внешне привлекателен. Да, он довольно функционален, поддерживает контейнеры, поиск в пределах контейнера, множество фильтров с масками, выделение, удаление выбранных. Но вид этой текстовой таблицы ужасен. Три строчки каши в "Value", узенькие столбцы "Flags" и "Expiry date", отсутствие сортировки по столбцам. Перенос в другой контейнер только через экспорт с последующим импортом в указанный " Destination cookie jar" (зачем было придумывать новый термин взамен "containers" и "context(s)"?). Непонятно, как быстро сбросить все фильтры. Фильтры с заданными критериями никак не подсвечены.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16829702, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16810860, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14596652, 4 years ago