Reviews for Cookie Manager
Cookie Manager by Rob W
Review by Lukas Mai
Rated 3 out of 5
by Lukas Mai, 8 years agoSort of functional, but the user interface is pretty bad.
You can search for cookies, but only if you already know exactly which cookie you're looking for. E.g. if you know that cookies have a "host" field, you can enter an exact name there and click "search". It only finds exact matches (no substring search) and there is no autocompletion. The UI form is spaced out all over the window, so you might not even see the buttons at the bottom at first glance. As far as I can tell, you can't really edit existing cookies. There's a "new cookie" form (which completely replaces the view/search form, you can't have both open at the same time) and its fields always start out empty, even if you had an existing cookie selected before. Even if you've managed to create your own cookie by filling all fields and clicking the "save" button, there is no apparent way back to the overview screen. The "new cookie" form just stays open and sits there. Fortunately the "cancel" button doesn't actually cancel your new cookie but takes you back (?).
3 stars because the add-on technically works (I think?), but the UI is borderline unusable.
You can search for cookies, but only if you already know exactly which cookie you're looking for. E.g. if you know that cookies have a "host" field, you can enter an exact name there and click "search". It only finds exact matches (no substring search) and there is no autocompletion. The UI form is spaced out all over the window, so you might not even see the buttons at the bottom at first glance. As far as I can tell, you can't really edit existing cookies. There's a "new cookie" form (which completely replaces the view/search form, you can't have both open at the same time) and its fields always start out empty, even if you had an existing cookie selected before. Even if you've managed to create your own cookie by filling all fields and clicking the "save" button, there is no apparent way back to the overview screen. The "new cookie" form just stays open and sits there. Fortunately the "cancel" button doesn't actually cancel your new cookie but takes you back (?).
3 stars because the add-on technically works (I think?), but the UI is borderline unusable.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoYou don't have to know the full host, use "*" as host name.
And I admit that the UI can be improved. It is optimized for the use case of removing cookies, modification of cookies was bolted on later. The UI is also optimized for mobile (because there is no cookie manager on Firefox mobile).
Pull requests for an improved UI are welcome...
And I admit that the UI can be improved. It is optimized for the use case of removing cookies, modification of cookies was bolted on later. The UI is also optimized for mobile (because there is no cookie manager on Firefox mobile).
Pull requests for an improved UI are welcome...
123 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jm, 3 months agoThis ap does not remove all cookies or other cookie-like traces left by most sites. If you go to Tools>Settings>Privacy& Security> Manage Data and click twice on "Last used" you will see most recent cookies left by all sites. You will also see the ones Cookie Manager leaves on your computer. You can delete them from there so why use Cook. Mgr. and then have to visit Tools to complete the removal??
- Rated 3 out of 5by BoilingOil, 4 months agoNot happy about the removal of the very helpful option to quickly set the search time/date to NOW. That was actually the most useful feature this extension had, and now it's gone... -2 stars for that.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dan, 5 months agoI successfully removed cookies for a specific site on Firefox for Android.
- Rated 5 out of 5by gmonly, 10 months agoseems to work good, the cookie quick manager would not work for me. this one not only lets you delete some, it also lets you edit them
- Rated 4 out of 5by jean f..., 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15974441, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aidan Stewart, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by MartyGreg, 2 years agoFor a normal user who wants to see all cookies and be able to delete some or all, this is unusable.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18054980, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Yahoshu Masih, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13768161, 3 years agoLet me find a cookie that neither Firefox nor the most popular cookie extension would. Thanks!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Laconia, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by strigoi, 3 years agoThis add-on doesn't work with the latest FF v, which version can I use to have this extension working please?
- Rated 5 out of 5by FreeLibre, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Illuminator, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by John Doe, 3 years agoThis addon is great for Firefox. But there are no Chrome cookie addon that supports importing from this addon's exported cookies. They (cookie addons available on Chrome web store) doesn't recognize JSON cookie file that exported by Cookie Manager. I'd love to see Chrome version of Cookie Manager!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rioniil, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Александр, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16975662, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by malex, 4 years ago