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Reviews for CookieKeeper
78 reviews for this add-on
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Palemoon compatibility, please!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.7.4.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I was a long-time CookieCuller user and was glad to see that it was revived with your CookieKeeper extension.
Do you have any plans to port this extension for PaleMoon 25+? (Palemoon 25 was a major revision from v24.7.) I see that someone had already opened a bug report on your supports page detailing the issues and the reason why the extension no longer works.
Thank you.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Instead of keeping track of a separate white list for sites I want cookies kept from, it would be very useful to instead just have a checkbox that says: "whitelist all bookmarked sites"
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.7.4.1-signed).In progress: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cookiekeeper/+bug/1408666
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I have been using Cookie Culler for a few years and have changed over to Cookie Keeper as it has everything I always wished Cookie Culler had.
It would be a great help if Expired cookies only could be display under the "Show Cookies" option so that they can be deleted if desired.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Glad to see that this is back for newer versions.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.7.4.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This addon makes me wana cry my ass off because I've been looking for a extension like this forever! 5 STARS man!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.7.4.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Thank you so very much. I was looking for something that could empty HTML5 local storage on browser exit. Now I have that and also an "up to date version of Cookie Culler". One thing that I miss from Cookie Culler is the "flat view" for cookies where you don't have to click every site open before you see the cookies. But nevertheless this is just what I needed.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.7.4.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Thank you very much Yvon! Like you I used CookieCuller for years and was very sad that it didn't work anymore. Trying out some other Cookie Manager without success, I finally found your adaption of CookieCuller which I appreciated very much.
CookieKeeper does exactly what I want: keeping the Cookies I use for my comfort and throwing away all others.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Soit je n'ai pas compris comment on utilise cette extension, soit il y a un problème quelque part... Comment sélectionner les cookies à conserver ? Mystère. Aucun formulaire, aucune fenêtre d'avertissement n'est fourni (sur Firefox v29). Je désinstalle donc pour repasser à la suppression automatique des cookies par Firefox...
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.7.4.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
La méthode de personnaliser la barre de navigation n'ayant pas fonctionné avec moi, j'ai installe la version 1.7.2.
Du coup tout fonctionne comme voulu.
Ca mérite donc 5 etoiles pour le module et la réactivité.
Merci à toi
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This does what CookieCuller did with a few more features; a very useful one is the ability to export/import a list of protected cookies.
I also use Cookie Monster to white list cookies by site; CookieKeeper warns me that I'm rejecting all cookies not knowing that Cookie Monster has a white list but they work OK together.
The only issue I can find is a UI issue. When you look under Preferences > Protected cookies it only displays a single line (might be because I'm on a Mac). However you can use the main display to see the entire list of protected cookies.
Great add-on and the fact that it is "No Restart" is a big plus.
Hi.
I know that the Mac version can have some UI problems, that others system don't have. I am sorry, I have no Mac to test...
If possible, can you email me some screen-shots (see the Support email) so I can try to fix theses problems?
It will help me a lot ;-)
Edit:
I tried to fixed the Mac issue with the protection list with the version 1.7.3 (https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/cookiekeeper/versions/1.7.3). Can you tell me if the fix works ?
Thank you.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
I tried to remove it from the add-ons and restart firefox, but I still get popups asking to accept cookies on every page I visit!
And I thought I would be able to REJECT 3rd party cookies with this app, but it bloody accepts everything, despite my preference settings!
Not only that, but there doesn't seem to be an intuitive way to whitelist or blacklist cookie domains either. Really clunky and poor interface, imo.
Hi,
It is not the add-on fault, it is the Firefox preferences that you change which still do that.
If you have changed some settings in the "Firefox" panel, within CookieKeeper preferences, it change the actual Firefox preferences.
To revert your changes, go to the Firefox preferences (call Options on Windows I think), in the "Privacy" panel, you need to set-up to what you think is good for you.
Although, if you have made, with the right click pop-up menu changes, on the permissions, to allow/ask/deny a domain cookies on some website, you may revert your changes in "about:permissions" (to do so, open a new tab, and in the address bar ("Search or enter address") type: about:permissions
There you can manage for each web site you already have visited, theses permissions.
My add-on permit to change theses functionalities. But they are not part of it, theses functionalities are built-in within Firefox.I just included them for convenience. If for some reason, you can't revert your changes, you can still reset for Firefox profile: Help menu -> Troubleshooting Information. Then "use the Reset Firefox" button.
"Not only that, but there doesn't seem to be an intuitive way to whitelist or blacklist cookie domains either."
Right click on a cookie domain, in the main cookie view -> Permissions -> Default/Allow/Block/Allow for session.
"Really clunky and poor interface, imo."
Can you explain more ? With only this sentence, I can't make things better ....
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Must have, no doubt...
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.7.0.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great addon! Thank you!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.7.0.1-signed).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
NOTE:
This review was originally posted on Feb 16, 2014, but Mozilla deleted it (twice) along with my 5/5 rating, and deleted the corresponding developer's response.
To Mozilla:
Stop micromanaging people's genuine reviews and instead focus your efforts on reducing the memory footprint of Firefox because it's a hog. Firefox 27 is more of a memory hog than Firefox 8 with only a handful of tabs opened, despite Mozilla’s MemShrink ongoing project over the last 2.5 years, aiming to reduce the memory consumption of Firefox. Sort it out FFS.
If you want people to use Firefox rather than its nemesis, Chrome and its the various Chromium builds, Mozilla will have to fix what's been broken version after version. By dumbing down the features listed in the menus simply alienates power-users (e.g. history removal after a specified time, and the option to toggle the disabling/enabling of images). Having to change such options in a convoluted way by digging around in the about:config frustrates and annoys the end-user.
And stop messing around with the UI. Firefox's heritage is built on the premise of being feature-rich, not looking anorexic, as Chrome appears.
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I've never used the previous incarnation of CookieKeeper, that is CookieCuller, however I've been fighting a losing battle with managing cookies in all the major browsers for a decade. In Firefox that involved using various cookie manager extensions.
Cookies are so pervasive that many sites insist on cookies being enabled in order to view the site, else the site is either displayed incorrectly or not at all.
It's a challenge in itself to configure NoScript and RequestPolicy (two of the most invaluable extensions for Firefox) for one's frequently accessed sites, not to mention having to deal with sanctioning temporary permit rules for other one-time viewed sites.
Having to set further permissions governing cookies make browsing a painful experience, but I refuse to take risks by shunning aside security and pursuing a high-risk care-free browsing attitude.
CookieKeeper is a blessing - it has totally changed the way I manage cookies. No more implicit deny cookies unless explicitly allowed per site, and then having to fiddle around with temporarily allowing cookies for newly visited sites.With CookieKeeper, only sites with which I have an ID / account, or specific cookie names for a given site that holds my preferences, are now protected. As far as all the other cookies are concerned, I don't give a $#1t. :D They are automatically deleted upon Firefox's exit.
CookieKeeper along with Cookies Manager+ (an amazing cookie manager/editor) makes cookie micro-management a thing of the past, yet retaining full control.
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IMPROVEMENTS & FEATURES
(1)
In the 'Protected Cookies' dialog box that shows all the cookies protected from deletion, via CookieKeeper's 'Preferences', the cookies appear to be listed in order of the time of having been given protected status.
It would be much more helpful if the protected cookies were listed alphabeticlly by domain name.
(2)
In the main dialog box of CookieKeeper that display's the cookies, it would helpful to have a right-click context menu upon clicking both the domain name and each individual cookie, which would give various options such as remove cookie, protect cookie, edit cookie, and block cookie (block cookie not needed if (5) below is implemented - and who wants to micro-manage cookies anyway ?) similar to the extension CookieMan Context ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookieman-context/ )
(3)
The CookieKeeper icon (located in either the Menu Bar or Add-on Bar) could have a drop-down menu giving the option to delete all non-protected cookies (similar to the drop-down menu of Adblock Plus), thereby reducing the clicks needed to open CookieKeeper's window and clicking 'Remove All Cookies".
(4)
The brown CookieKeeper icon could reflect whether the current tab possesses a protected cookie, an unprotected cookie, a mix of both protected and unprotected cookies, or no cookie, by way of implementing a traffic-light color system, e.g., the CookieKeeper icon turns green if all cookie(s) for the current tab is/are protected, yellow if a mix of protected and unprotected cookies exist, and red for unprotected cookies. The CookieKeeper icon will retain its original brown color if no cookie is present for the current tab.
In this way, one will instantly be able to identify whether a site that should have it's cookies protected, has or has not its cookies protected. If it has not, then one may take action to protect the cookie(s), simply based upon visualizing the color of CookieKeeper's icon.
(5)
Although non-protected cookies may be deleted on-demand and upon Firefox's exit, an enhancement of this would be to force non-protected cookies to be culled after either one of two events has occurred:
a) a predetermined configurable time has elapsed after a cookie's last access time
b) when the cookies are no longer used by currently open tabs
In this way tracking cookies won't have a fighting chance. However dealing with and eradicating zombie cookies becomes an another challenge altogether.
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I hope this extension becomes extremely popular, more so than its predecessor CookieCuller, for CookieKeeper can be the extension that finally truly resolves cookie hell.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This is exactly what I was looking for, but it sure wasn't easy to find. The idea is so sound it should have been implemented in FF itself long ago - in every browser, for that matter. Thank you to the developer. I can tell it's a keeper.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.6.0.1-signed).Thank you :-)
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I've been a huge fan of Cookie Culler because it allows you to selectively make individual cookies permanent and delete all the others when you close your browser. This is VERY powerful. CookieKeeper seems to be a successor, and it does the same thing but better. It even imports permanent cookies from Cookie Culler. And you can delete non-permanent cookies anytime, another powerful feature that allows you to stop some monitoring by websites without closing your browser. Try that at NYT.com, for example.
It gets five stars, but it could be better. I"d like to see sites with permanent cookies listed separately from sites without any permanent cookies. And at least one permanent cookie imported from Cookie Culler didn't work right for some reason, but it was easily fixed. I'd also like an option for a menu item on the tool bar like Cookie Culler.
Oddly, it is hard to find this add-on at the Mozilla site. Searching by name doesn't bring it up on the first screen. Just keep scrolling until you find it.
I have implemented for the next CookieKeeper version:
- Add a menuitem under the tools menu to show the main CookieKeeper window
- Show quickly all cookies/only protected cookies/only unprotected cookies (by replacing the top label by a button menu item)
Hope theses two evolutions will match your requests. I will wait a little more to publish a new version, I may implement others evolutions, if I feel to do so ;-)
For the bug with the cookieculler import, I'm sorry, but without more informations, I can't do anything.
Question: I didn't really understand what you mean by "another powerful feature that allows you to stop some monitoring by websites without closing your browser. Try that at NYT.com, for example." ?
Can you explain more ?
Thank you.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This addon is much improved version of it's outdated predecessor CookiesCuller, with many improvements as in the interface, as in features. And on top of that it's restartless.
@author: please provide some means to contact you. I'd like add support for your addon into my CookiesManager+, but so far your addon doesn't support any kind of integration. If you could add a listener or global object that would allow other addons communicate with yours it would be great.
You can use the dev page at launchpad to contact me : https://launchpad.net/cookiekeeper :)
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