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Warning! I've been getting some messages that the installer isn't
working. So far, it's worked fine for me, so I'm going to try and track down
a platform/browser/install combination that fails so I can fix it. In the
meanwhile, caveat emptor. Well, you're not an emptor, so just
caveat.
CookieBar is an interface to your cookie manager, but it sits
in your sidebar. It provides a quick way to look at your cookies, and to
delete or block them. Check out the screenshots
for a better idea.
CookieBar requires Mozilla 1.2.1 or better. It may work with
degraded functionality on earlier versions. Specifically, the cookie list
won't update dynamically on older versions. You may be able to force
an update by changing to a different sidebar, then changing back, but
you'll void your warranty.
Features
- View a list of cookie sites and names.
- View the value and expiration date for one cookie at a time.
- Delete cookies using the 'Remove' button or the Delete key.
- Block cookies permanently using the 'Block' button.
- Select a contiguous list of cookies for deleting or blocking
using shift-click.
- Select a non-contiguous list of cookies for deleting or blocking
using control-click.
- Quick access to the Cookie Manager.
- View full set of cookie properties by double-clicking.
- Sort by site or name by clicking on column header.
Interpreting Cookie Site Names
If a cookie site begins with a dot (.), it indicates that it is
a domain-wide cookie. This cookie will be valid for all servers
within that domain. For example:
is a domain-wide cookie, and will be served with pages at www.yahoo.com,
news.yahoo.com, and sports.yahoo.com (among others).
This is also a domain-wide cookie:
but this is a cookie specific to the server named www.washingtonpost.com:
Were I to visit www.washingtonpost.com, I would get both of these
cookies.
The reason I so carefully explain these distinctions is that CookieBar
behaves differently from Mozilla's built-in Cookie Manager in this
regard; the difference is not so clearly obvious there.
Future Features
- View cookies specific to the current pages only. If anyone knows
how to get notification events when a new browser tab is opened, or
when the selected browser tab changes, please
email me.
- Have cookies deleted from CookieBar reflect such in the Cookie Manager,
and vice-versa.
If you do not get a response to a question posted in this forum, please try sending a message to the project's mailing list or to the project owner directly.
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i can't install this. After i launch xpi link and restart mozilla, when i try to launch "chrome://cookiebar/content/addpanel.xul" from address bar mozilla ask me to save or open file, but then nothing happens :/
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I wanted to try this. It seemed to instal ok. I restart my browser Mozilla 1.2.1 , go to the URL advised and get asked whether to run the app or save to disk. Try opening it with Mozilla but nothing seems to have happened.
Any Suggestions? sab4130@hotmail.com
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I've sort of wanted something like this ever since cookie blocking was introduced - but I think this is possibly too detailed. My ideal cookie solution would be for mozilla to block all cookies by default, but have a little button somewhere in the main window to unblock a sites cookies. Just an idea...
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Just installed the new Cookiebar. Followed the instructions and have the same issues as the one's posted above. The only thing that wasn't mentioned was uninstallation. Your docs indicated to open the sidebar and find the cookiebar option. "No can Do"
Obviously I'd prefer to have it working, but if it is not functioning or ready for beta testing at this time, I'd like to kill it from my configuration. Anyone else having a problem uninstalling this tool?
Suggestions Welcome: mrvoice@hotmail.com
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This may be more of a core browser issue, but is there any way to integrate P3P Compact Privacy info into the display as flags or color-coding or whatever? http://www.w3.org/P3P/
It would be a great debugging help to those of us developing sites that are used by people with browsers that pay attention to that info.
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I figured out how to make this work. After you restart your browser and paste the link it says, if it looks like nothing happens, click on the end of the link in your browser and hit enter again. You will get a message saying Cookiebar Installed or some such message..I am running last nights Latest Build and it works wonders.
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I would really like to be able to modify the cookie values that I have stored, especially the cookies only stored in memory. I can change the cookies saved to disk by changing the cookies.txt file, but it would be great if there was an easier way to do that, too.
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I had problems installing this as the people up above did, but then I tried #6 Soladan's suggestion and lo and behold, it worked. This is a nice feature to have in the browser...thanks!
By the way, I'm running Mozilla 1.2.1 on Win XP Pro.
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Have same problem. When I open addpanel.xul first time, nothing happened. So I "..click on the end of the link in your browser and hit enter again" [6] and mozill ask me if I want to save file or open in aplication NOT installing it.
Mozilla 1.2.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Could anyone help ?
thx
Milda@id2.cz
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I'd like to second Jake's request... I've been hoping for a long time that cookie-editing would be added to the already fantastic Mozilla cookie manger.
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Tried to make this work again but couldn't for the life of me. I can see cookie bar files in mozilla chrome. I just cant get anywhere restarting mozilla and trying that addpanel link. Get message open with? or save to disk, tried both nothing happened. For the record was using Mozilla 1.2.1 and Windows 2000.
BUT now weirdly I tried to repeat this problem and had exactly the same experience as #6 - hit go twice and it works. So maybe if you keep trying you'll get there too!
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I installed this into Linux, and under Root it worked like a charm. But in other user accounts, the bar does not show up, and pasting the URL does nothing for me. I'll admit that I'm very new with Linux and know just enough to be dangerous. Any help would be appreciated.
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Works perfectly, instantly with 1.3b in WinXP. Well done!
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I figured out how to make this work. After you restart your browser and paste the link it says, if it looks like nothing happens, click on the end of the link in your browser and hit enter again. You will get a message saying Cookiebar Installed or some such message..I am running last nights Latest Build and it works wonders.
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it works perfectly,
i have no problem.
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The only things that work wonders are the links in the postings.
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Could I suggest adding an entry to the "Page Info" window that shows all cookie information for the current page.
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TROUBLE :
I get the trouble of saying "save as ..." on moz 1.2.1 on w2k when typing the url ("chrome://cookiebar/content/addpanel.xul"). (this does not appen on moz1.3 !!)
WORKAROUND :
- uncheck "Chrome" protocol ("preferences > system")
- restart browser
- recheck "Chrome" protocol
- restart browser
- retype the url. It work !!
Have fun with this nice tool
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problem with all the people who r experiencing problems is that they do not press F9 key before hitting enter key.F9 key enables the sidebar and after which it is easily instal.I learn this thing some days back when I wanted to instal Html side bar from devages web site. I think this may solve some peoples Problems.
Try it thanks.
ps:I am currently using Moz1.3
For the developer of this plugin just add one more line to your setup instalation page :
Don't for get to press F9 if side bar is not active.
I think it will solve the problem of many who say it do not install with their Mozilla.
It is very good thing after all.Keep on improving its
Excelent work And very handy for people like me
antigrandprix@hotmail.com
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Mike, try this; it should work:
Make sure you close Mozilla before doing this.
1. cd to your mozilla directory.(usually /usr/lib/mozilla or /usr/local/mozilla)
2. become su root
3. cd to chrome/cookiebar/content
4. type "chmod 666 *.*" without the quotes. Check with ls -ld *.* to see that all files have the following permissions: rw-rw-rw
6. do the same in the .../mozilla/chrome/cookiebar/locale/en-US/cookiebar directory.
7. open mozilla as non-root user and open the sidebar and then type:
chrome://cookiebar/content/addpanel.xul
and click ENTER
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?? works fine...I don't see any problem
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Thanks you for the web, it is what I needed to complete my work.
You do a very good work and you must feel proud of it.
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Works perfectly, instantly very nice
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It is very good thing after all.Keep on improving its
Excelent work And very handy for people like
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I really enjoyed your site. Great work!
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Cool software, great way of monitoring my cookies while on line.
Have noticed that on yahoo.com that I keep getting cookies from pointroll.com. This is occurring even though I have blocked the cookies for that site and have set Mozzilla to only accept cookies from the originating site.
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The below solves the problem that i was having:
Preferences, Advanced, scripts & plug-ins, deselect create and modify Cookies & Read cookies will prevent java script from been used to create cookies which appear to bypass Mozilla's cookie controls.
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There are two problems, both easily worked around. (Comment #21 is wrong, it has nothing to do with the sidebar being visible or not.)
The first problem is that .xpi files can only be installed by root on most systems. So the "click on this link" part has to be done while running mozilla as root.
The second problem is that the chrome/* files are added with permissions of 0400, with root ownership. To fix this, cd into the mozilla system directory (whereever you put it, it's /usr/lib/mozilla on a debian box), and run
chmod -R a+rX chrome
(watch capitalization). The suggestion in comment 21 is incomplete (the directories also have wrong perms)
and actually dangerous (0666 allows anyone to edit the files).
After these steps, starting mozilla as a non-root user
and typing in the chrome://... URI then works.
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This is a pretty cool tool - I like it.
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Hey Phil,
Thanks for pointing out the dangerous permissions thing in my suggestion (#21). I was still learning my way around Linux at the time I posted that (pretty obvious from the *.* I suppose)... However, in my experience, I changing the directory permissions are unnecessary, but then I'm on Redhat 8.0 and the usr/local/mozilla/chrome permissions are 0755 by default.
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Would it be possible to allow editing the expires time on the cookies I have. Let me explain what I am trying to do.
I have Mozilla set to convert all cookies to session cookies. However, sometimes a website sets some cookies which I might want to hang on to for a little longer. eg: slashdot autentication, the news selections on dailyrotation.com, etc. I would love to be able to fire up the cookie bar, and edit the expires values to make the cookie stay longer.
thx
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This site is interesting as well as informative. Enjoyed browsing through the site. Keep up the good work. Greetings..
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Wow , very interesting site , nice work , congrats !
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Works on OS X 10.2.6 and Moz 1.5b. Uhhh, maybe eliminate the last step. Thanks, helps with web development on my Scoop site.
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Also, for deving we need a cache sidebar.
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Hello, I just wanted to say you have a very informative site which really made me think, Thanks !
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Interesting information. /
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Congratulations for your site!
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