Reviews for Cookiebro - Cookie Manager
Cookiebro - Cookie Manager by Nodetics
115 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Marco Santos, 4 years agoThis should be recommended by Mozilla. Like Feedbro, by the same author, it's the best.
- Rated 5 out of 5by p, 4 years agoi deleted the unwanted cookies and then i had to log in to all sites!! whats your definition of unwanted cookies sir? also there is no option to add the domain to black list , in toolbar icon.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14800663, 4 years agoI could get this to work and show the Icon with FireFox 83 ... 32 Bit ......... The 64 Bit would never show the Icon at the top.
- Rated 5 out of 5by vcfvct, 4 years agoThis is a must have after Firefox removed its built-in cookie viewer. Thanks!
- Rated 5 out of 5by 黒崎十兵衞 • (Jubei Kurosaki), 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6490726, 4 years agoThis is a must have extension for me!
I have a small problem though: if I remove the "session" checkbox and set an expiration date on a cookie, those settings get lost as soon as the cookie is set again by the server. In a case like that only the value should get updated. Or maybe provide a "lock" option to prevent a cookie from being changed at all by the server?
And a small useability enhancement: it would be nice if you could delete a cookie by hitting the del key instead of having to open the context menu. Also if the contents of cookie would be shown immediately when moving to it with the arrow keys, would IMHO be more intuitive than having to additionally press the enter key.Developer response
posted 4 years agoThanks for the review and good suggestions! We added these to the Product Backlog. - Rated 3 out of 5by John Corliss, 4 years agoIt works, but I really don't like cookie logging. I very much don't like the way that cookie logging is enabled by default either and how it resets to being enabled whenever I run CCleaner and Bleachbit on my system. Other than that though, this extension does a great job of deleting unwanted cookies without restarting Firefox, and it also does great at protecting cookies that I don't want to lose. As I said though, logging should be turned off by default. In fact, I don't see any excuse for there to be logging of cookies in any event. I see it as a possible privacy exploit. Webextension data SHOULD be cleaned. Perhaps the extensions settings should be stored some other way if possible. I have no intention of ending my use of such tools as CCleaner and Bleachbit.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoLogging can be turned off in Cookiebro Options. If CCleaner or some other tool you use deletes WebExtension storage data, it's hardly a valid reason to give Cookiebro just 3 stars. Instead, CCleaner and other apps like that should improve their products so that they don't delete WebExtension data. Or just stop using such tools.
EDIT: if CCleaner / Bleachbit deletes the "Don't log" setting, then it will also delete your whitelist, blacklist and other settings since storing those settings is done using the same API call. If you really want to wipe all settings of all your extensions and then manually reimport those settings, go ahead but it's your choice. - Rated 4 out of 5by Mylk, 4 years agoCannot find option to show which container is the cookie in.
Update: so there is no aggregate view where I see every container, like in Cookie AutoDelete?Developer response
posted 4 years agoLook at the URL bar. The store URL parameter tells the container name when you open Options or Editor. - Rated 5 out of 5by duxet, 5 years agoI really like it. It would be even more awesome if it could sync settings between devices: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/storage/sync
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThe sync API is useless. You can only store total of 100 KB data with it and max size for a single key data entry is only 8 KB. It's also heavily throttled. - Rated 5 out of 5by Rico Liebscher, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by moloco, 5 years agoYes, it's the best cookie manager for Firefox and Chrome. It's stable, functional, and the minimal UI is sufficiently usable.
Feature request: could you add "Clear current domain cookies"? This is useful for developers and troubleshooting web site issues. If the current domain is whitelisted, "clear unwanted cookies" will not clear them, even if the user wants to. The workaround is to go to the log and delete each. It would be nice to have the option to clear all current domain cookies. Thank you.Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for the review. Note that you can also open Cookie Editor, right-click the domain and select "Delete all cookies" from the context menu. - Rated 5 out of 5by Mr. Axehandle, 5 years agoCookiebro is probably the best cookie manager for Firefox and Chrome, built on the bones of the now-abandoned Vanilla cookie manager extension (which I missed). I highly recommend it.
Cookiebro is easy to use, and relatively intuitive. Keep cookies in whitelists and block cookies in blacklists, and easily purge the rest cookies on-demand or automatically. Import or export lists as a simple text file that is simple to edit. The cookie log view and cookie editor are powerful tools whether managing privacy or just debugging.
Minor issues: While adding and removing list items is easy, one can't edit them in place. For example, if I have "getpocket.com" in my whitelist, and want to change it to "*.getpocket.com", I have to add the latter as a new element, and then remove the former. I also wish the extension would sync settings across browsers, so I didn't have to spend as much time importing and exporting.
For managing and auto-deleting cookies, also try the Cookie AutoDelete (CAD) extension. Choosing between that and Cookiebro is a matter of personal preference. I have found CAD to be a bit buggier, but it has some advantages of its own. While it lacks the Cookie Log and Cookie Editor, these aren't essential for the majority of users.
For those who are cautious about their extension use, the developer (Nodetics) has at least one other extension that is Mozilla Recommended, and I suspect Cookiebro has not yet been recommended largely because the UI is perhaps too minimalist and functional, with less frequent updates. - Rated 5 out of 5by dLeon, 5 years agoInterestingly after I forced install, it seem actually work on Firefox Mobile. At least I notice Auto Delete work, which I actually need. Hope it will officially Firefox Mobile Compatible.
- Rated 5 out of 5by FD, 5 years agoI love this extension! Works flawlessly with Waterfox Classic. Lot of options, very useful to preserve login cookies for instance, so you don't have to log again each time. You can see all that stuff that is stored in your browser when you surf and easily get rid of what you don't need, or edit cookies according to your needs, etc. Maybe an option to lock specific cookies could be added, if it's possible, so websites cannot make changes on them (date or data). Thanks anyway to the developer, keep up the good work!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13768115, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14797341, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pascal, 5 years agoOke, oke. After your reply I went through cookiebro again and as I said, I like it as the options to allow or block or even edit are great. Anyway, FF is since long not my default browser anymore... I added cookieBRO to Vivaldi and there this add-on cut a figure as the cookie management of vivaldi is still quite spartanic (but there are some recent efforts..) However, will rate ur add-on again on chrome....
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This add-on would be perfect. But unfortunately it is not connected to the browser cookie preferences. It works as a stand alone, means the cookie preferences from the add-on won't be updated in the browser preferences... That is not really the idea of an add-on, isn't it?Developer response
posted 5 years agoThat's the idea. There's no API available for accessing browser's internal cookie preferences. And it really doesn't make sense to use both. Just use Cookiebro. - Rated 5 out of 5by John laPlante, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15166984, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13550075, 5 years agoBest cookie manager ever. Can you add support for Multi-Account Containers? Because this extension doesn't delete cookies from containers... in my case.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoCookiebro can delete unwanted cookies from other containers as well. However, it requires that you have a tab open for that specific container. This is an unfortunate limitation that Firefox devs didn't want to fix. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578096
With Cookiebro you can also inspect and manage cookies in a particular container. Just open a container tab and then access e.g. Cookie Editor with Cookiebro.
EDIT: there's an upcoming workaround in the following versions for this. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15334459, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13420335, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by CodemanV, 5 years ago*** EDIT ***
All of a sudden for some bizarre reason the Whitelist is empty when I run Firefox, every session I can add sites to the Whitelist but on relaunching Firefox it reverts the Whitelist back to empty :(
*** END EDIT ***
Finally! A decent cookie manager that actually works for the stupidly restrictive, uncustomisable and broken mess that is Firefox Quantum 60+ ... or as I call it, Firefox Can't 'um do anything useful with it.Developer response
posted 5 years agoHave you changed your Firefox settings or done tweaks in about:config? What does this site tell you: https://firefox-storage-test.glitch.me/
PS. Please don't use reviews to create support requests. Send them to nodetics@gmail.com