Cookie management with the latest Firefox

March 13, 2020 6:20 AM

What's a good plug-in to manage and white-list cookies with the latest Firefox? I want to allow a select few sites, and block everything else. I had been using Cookie Monster, but it's no longer supported.
posted by JawnBigboote to Computers & Internet (8 answers total)

Best answer: Cookie Autodelete is a full featured but quite complex cookie manager for Firefox. It supports features like Firefox containers for example, and will also delete website usage of Local Storage.
posted by Eleven at 7:38 AM on March 13, 2020 [1 favorite]

i use Cookie by SweetP Productions and it's quite good. not free though and not a plug in. works with all your browsers at the same time.
posted by toycamera at 9:55 AM on March 13, 2020

Best answer: You can and should do this with the browser's internal cookie controls.
First configure Firefox to block all 1st and 3rd party cookies, then override the defaults for each site with the permissions manager, accessible from the context menu or the hotkey CTRL+I.

If you do want to use extensions, then look into Cookie Quick Manager for advanced functionality, or piggyback on uBlock Origin / uMatrix for basic blocking.
posted by Bangaioh at 10:01 AM on March 13, 2020 [2 favorites]

Best answer: came here to recommend Cookie Autodelete, so I will second Eleven's recommendation.
posted by namewithoutwords at 1:14 PM on March 13, 2020 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Thirding. It took me a while to find one that I liked, but have been pleased with Cookie Autodelete.
posted by Chrysostom at 3:43 PM on March 13, 2020 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: While I'll agree that using Firefox's native permissions is the best solution, they are nigh-on unusable for everyone but the most stubbornly privacy-minded and technically adept. ^I gets to the per-site permissions, but the general settings are in preferences, and never shall the two link to each other.

I've installed Cookie Autodelete and am giving it a test run.

Thank you everyone!
posted by JawnBigboote at 10:43 AM on March 17, 2020

Response by poster: Cookie Autodelete seems to provide a univied interface to Firefox's cookie settings, FWIW
posted by JawnBigboote at 10:58 AM on March 17, 2020

It probably doesn't matter for your purposes but, to be clear, CAD (or any other cookie handling extension) can't replicate Firefox cookie controls, as webextensions they're by design limited in capability:

Cookie extensions
APIs do not exist to allow clearing IndexedDB, Service Workers cache, appCache, or cache by host. Clearing cookies & localStorage on their own, and leaving orphaned persistent data is a false sense of privacy

This is acknowledged by the author, not trying to demean CAD as it is fine at what it does do.
posted by Bangaioh at 11:40 AM on March 17, 2020