Cookie 6 and Firefox

SweetP

That’s great, perhaps the logout issues are due to tracking cookie removal?

chrism

I do have it set to remove tracking cookies, but on the other hand I have all cookies from those forums ticked as favorites. This was not an issue in the past when I was using Cookie.

SweetP

@chrism sites do change their cookie storage, I would try disabling cache removal first to see if that helps. Then go through and try whitelisting and tracking cookies and see if that has an effect.

chrism

I'm rather sad to report that after all this I have done away with Cookie. I did not get the gross corruption of my Firefox profile the way I had in the past, but there was an enormous slowdown of browsing to the point where it was unusable. I quit Cookie, and replaced my Firefox profile with a backup and all went back to normal.
I can strongly recommend Cookie for those who choose to use Safari as a browser. I cannot do that, as I prefer to have some worthwhile ad-blocking options. If you use Firefox for that reason, Cookie does not seem to work as well as it once did.

SweetP

@chrism were you running the timer in Cookie?
I don’t really recommend that for any browser if so.

chrism

Timer? No. As well as the slowdown, I also discovered some sites stopped working properly. As in a Leica forum where I could not reply to a thread - or even THIS forum, where I had to open the thread in Safari in order to reply. Having replaced the profile with a backup, here I am replying directly in Firefox.
I really like the idea of Cookie, and loved it when it got along with Firefox. Maybe at sometime in the future it will work again.

SweetP

I’m looking into the webextensions api for better support. It will take sone time though...

chrism

Well that was a pretty bad few days, though I cannot be sure Cookie was to blame. Replacing the Firefox profile seemed to work, but so did any restart, briefly. But all the problems came back. Refreshing Firefox did not help. Then Safari and Mail (I assume their shared WebKit basis explains why both) started to play up. Wiped the disk and restored from backup, and things seem to work again. I don't want to go through that again!

SweetP

Do you also use the privacy settings in Firefox to remove data on quit? Because that can cause issues of used in combination with cookie.you should use one or the other, but not both.

malak

Cookie has NEVER been working correctlly with firefox, made me loose countless productivity time by multiples bugs : corrupting my profile, my extensions, it breaks history, and even breaking the browser (yes some websites doesn't work until you rebuild your database). I made multiple reports here just to see versions over versions with "fixes" that improves nothing. At the end, i just let firefox managing cookies as i m tired of reporting and loosing my profile and history again and again. Makes cookie useless since firefox is my main browser, actually i wish i can get a refund.

So long story short : if you need firefox browser working, stay away from cookie until the dev makes serious work AND tests to provide reliable software that doesn't break your browser. I have enough of chasing database corruption in firefox after cookie "cleans" it, it's going on for months if not years.