Reviews for SimpleCookie
SimpleCookie by mickaphd
Review by 宇航
Rated 5 out of 5
by 宇航, 4 months agoFound on Reddit, this tool is great for quickly checking cookies and even for logging out of websites faster, although that might not have been its main purpose!
8 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by SkyNet EDB Systems, 3 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16357508, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hollytryx, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AnarcoDani, 3 months agoI was looking for a simple replacement for Cookie AutoDelete, since its development seems to be stagnated and lacks basic stuff like a dark mode. This add-on, although not a full replacement yet, works quite nicely!
I however think it could be improved in three ways to be just perfect:
*Edit: really appreciate the latest updates introducing my suggestions, cheers!*
- Provide the option to revert the recent deletion of cookies from a domain, similar to what the previously mentioned CAD does.
- Hide the "nuclear" option better by default, or at least give the option to do so while still showing the rest of icons from the ribbon. Reading all the stuff it deletes (including plugin data and saved passwords!), it seems like a really extreme action that most users of a "simple cookie manager" probably don't intend to use frequently (or ever), so having this drastic button just casually sitting next to the much more innocuous "clean cookies" and "options" ones seems like a recipe for disaster, as illustrated by what happened to a previous user here. I don't think that the hovering pop-up warning is enough; when you click on it I would also provide a warning confirmation dialog, just to ensure the action is reversible even when clicked by mistake. Maybe this last element has already been implemented though, I of course haven't dared to click the icon to check.
- Add an option to treat .co.uk (and maybe other particular country domains like that) as a single level domain, to keep the same logic for websites inside and outside the UK.Developer response
posted 3 months agoThanks for your insights and feedback. Points 2 and 3 are feasible and should not be a problem. I will try to implement these in the next release when I have some time, in addition to fixing a bug I noticed with what we call partitioned cookies. Your first point is definitely of interest. I will need to think about a simple way to implement this. Cheers. - Rated 5 out of 5by John, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18442985, 6 months agoExersice caution when using this extension!
Partly my fault for not being careful, but unlabeled icons that I clicked, thinking it would take me to a menu, deleted everything cookie-related, incuding saved passwords. Windows system restore didn't seem to help revert the mistake.Developer response
posted 6 months agoI'm sorry for any confusion, but the extension seems to have worked as described. I took time to detail every action in the description, so I supposed you didn't read it. Additionally, warning messages appear for each icon when you hover your cursor over them. Receiving a 1-star rating for an open-source extension that I put effort into coding and that worked as intended is kind of disheartening, but hey, that's just the way things work online, I suppose. I will take your comment into account and consider adding a "careful" introductory popup later on. Cheers. - Rated 5 out of 5by Vedun, 8 months ago