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Mozilla Removes Individual Cookie Management in Firefox 60 (ghacks.net)

Posted by msmash on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

Martin Brinkmann, writing for Ghacks: The most recent version of Firefox Nightly, currently at version 60, comes with changes to Firefox's cookie management. Mozilla merged cookie settings with site data in the web browser which impacts how you configure and manage cookie options. If you run Firefox 59 or earlier, you can load about:preferences#privacy to manage privacy related settings in Firefox. If you set the history to "use custom settings for history" or "remember history", you get an option manage cookie settings and to remove individual cookies from Firefox. A click on the link or button opens a new browser window in which all set cookies are listed. You can use it to find set cookies, look up information, remove selected or all cookies. Mozilla engineers changed this in recent versions of Firefox 60 (currently on the Nightly channel).

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  1. Re:Is this some kind of joke? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    You probably still can. I don't care to check, because I don't particularly care about Firefox any more, but from what I can tell they're simplifying the "basic user" UI to make it merge all storage together, rather than show individual cookies.

    The dev tools (Ctrl-Shift-I) contain a UI that lets you view and manipulate ALL local storage, including individual cookies. It doesn't sound like this is going away. So if you need to remove a single cookie in Firefox, you can probably still do it through the dev tools.

    This probably isn't quite as bad an idea as the article wants you to think it is because I suspect most people who knew enough to remove individual cookies were probably using the dev tools anyway and not the cookie tools available via the preferences.

  2. Misleading headline by campuscodi · · Score: 5, Informative

    The option is still there. You just have to press the "Settings" button in the Cookies section. Weird choice of words, I'll admit that. Some Mozilla UI designer needs to get in trouble, that's for damn sure.

  3. Re:Is this some kind of joke? by GameboyRMH · · Score: 3, Informative

    Looks like Cookie Manager can replace the lost functionality:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

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    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
  4. Fixed that for you. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mozilla XXmoves Individual Cookie Management in Firefox 60