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This is fantastic. I never liked the cookies sticking around forever, and managing them manually was a massive pain if you wanted to keep some of them. Not to
by vikbytes 6y ago
This is fantastic. I never liked the cookies sticking around forever, and managing them manually was a massive pain if you wanted to keep some of them.
Not to mention Firefox is usually brought to its knees when trying to delete large segments of History/Cookies at once.
- Yoric 6y ago> Not to mention Firefox is usually brought to its knees when trying to delete large segments of History/Cookies at once. Is that still the case? I remember that one of the developers was seriously working on improving that.
- vikbytes 6y agoYep, still a problem for me last week, deleting entries numbering more than about 300 seems to be the magical breaking point.
- ainar-g 6y agoYes. The “magic number” seems to be 300 items on my machine. Anything above that will start to seriously freeze the browser.
- weaksauce 6y agoI remember looking into this and it's a bit of a tangle. some of the oldest code in the codebase I think.
- catalogia 6y ago> Not to mention Firefox is usually brought to its knees when trying to delete large segments of History/Cookies at once. Nine year old bug related to this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734643 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734643 The 'Library' window in general is clearly neglected trash. For instance it still doesn't get themed like the rest of Firefox.
- ainar-g 6y ago> This is fantastic. I never liked the cookies sticking around forever, and managing them manually was a massive pain if you wanted to keep some of them. You might like the CookieAutoDelete plugin[1]. It's a recommended plugin which allows you to set a list of domains and domain patterns which retain their cookies while others are deleted. I've been using it for a couple of months now, and I love it. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
- faitswulff 6y agoI’ve been using it for a similar time period and it’s great for reading paywalled articles.
- jorvi 6y agoThere is a newer extension called CookieBro that is much better than CookieAutoDelete. Not only does it have more options for dealing with cookies, CookieAutoDelete often would leave some cookies alive.
- agurk 6y agoThat is a fantastic plugin although unfortunately it's not (yet?) available in the new mobile Firefox - nor any equivalent. It's still there for the old version if you haven't been force-upgraded.
- graton 6y ago+1 Yes to CookieAutoDelete. Medium was what pushed me over the edge to start using it. Has been working very well so far.
- jimmaswell 6y agoWhat cookies are you trying to get rid of? Why are they a big deal?
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoThe ones that track your identity are sort of a big deal. There's no reason to keep this litter hanging around.
- catalogia 6y agoYou've got it completely backwards. Invert your questions: What cookies shouldn't be deleted, and why shouldn't they be deleted? The continued existence of a cookie requires justification, not the deletion of a cookie. Only a small minority of cookies exist for the users' benefit.
- jimmaswell 6y agoI don't personally care if some ad network made a few pennies off me, and preventing that wouldn't be worth the inconvenience to me.
- catalogia 6y agoDisable it then, just because you're apathetic to such matters doesn't mean the application should assume everybody is. >inconvenience It's seriously doubtful you or any other user will notice any negative ramifications from third party cookies being deleted, because there basically are none.
- jimmaswell 6y agoWe'll notice the inconvenience when more services get paywalled due to not being able to make enough ad money.
- weikju 6y agothen they should show ads without all the tracking...
- dependenttypes 6y agoYou might want to try uMatrix. It lets you choose which sites are allowed to use cookies.