Cookie 5 beta
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But: No Cookies showing up in Firefox (41.0.2) at all, I had all other blockers (AdBlock, uBlock, Ghostery) disabled in the browser and restarted Cookie an Firefox multiple times, still nothing showing up.
hmm,
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- When I start it for the 1st time (no previous Cookie version ever installed) it asks for permissions when the appropriate browser is selected. That's fine, but there's no quick way to get out of the series of permission approval dialogues if I select a wrong browser by mistake for example. Is there a chance to provide some option to quickly cancel all this and allow me to start over again?
Ill see what i can do about making this more user friendly
- With Opera (details about the version below) I can't see any cookie contents. I can see it alright with Safari, but for Opera this column is just empty.
all Chrome derivatives have encrypted cookie contents. I have looked into it, but the best solution found so far required accessing the system keychain to decrypt the cookie fully. Which is possible..... but not in the sandbox? Ill look into it more for possible inclusion in a future update.
Another related one: An option to show cookies in "flat view" - e.g. not hidden (and grouped) under the appropriate website entry at all, but shown and sorted by their actual full host names would be greatly appreciated.
This could also be added as an advanced option in an update.
Thanks for the great feedback!
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Hi. At first I was puzzled by the file selector box. I thought I should tell where Safari App is located because the auto locate failed. Then I realized that all Apps are gray (disabled). Then I discovered that the "Allow" button was grayed out, too and I can't click it. Maybe since I am not an admin user for security. It should ask for an admin password as well as allow all that stuff in a script included in an installation package. Users should not be bothered by this.
After I realized that the file selector box only asks for permissions (why not display an allow/disallow button) and I can't advance I clicked on cancel. The other ones popped up and I allowed everything.
Cookies are deleted by quitting Safari so far.
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But: No Cookies showing up in Firefox (41.0.2) at all, I had all other blockers (AdBlock, uBlock, Ghostery) disabled in the browser and restarted Cookie an Firefox multiple times, still nothing showing up.
hmm,
do you have Firefox in a custom location?No, it's in the OSX Applications Folder.
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Hi there. I've experimented with 5.x and there doesn't seem any compelling reason to upgrade from 4.x. In fact 4.5.3.1 seems stable (no crash on shutdown) and does what I experienced under Yosemite. Can you please explain the benefits of 5.x under ElCap. Also, when 5.x is released with there be an upgrade charge.
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that is strange?
do you have this folder on your computer:
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profilesthis is the folder Cookie searches for cookie data
Yes, the folder is there as expected, containing one sql-database from my PW-manager and a subfolder with an alphanumeric string and ".default" at the end, this one contains a lot of firefox related stuff, e.g. blocklists, extension and so on.
Any suggestions?
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Hi there. I've experimented with 5.x and there doesn't seem any compelling reason to upgrade from 4.x. In fact 4.5.3.1 seems stable (no crash on shutdown) and does what I experienced under Yosemite. Can you please explain the benefits of 5.x under ElCap. Also, when 5.x is released with there be an upgrade charge.
There's no real need to upgrade. When it really boils down to it, both apps do the same thing.
But I needed to future proof cookie, so figured I'd do a complete overhaul at he same time. I won't support cookie4 on OS X 10.12, it's already supporting 6 different OS's!All new development will go into v5 though. But there are no major plans, just some usability improvements planned. So if v4 does the job, I'd stick with it.
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Any suggestions?
Does Cookie4 pick up the cookies?
You could try disabling, then re-enabling Firefox.Well, Cookie 4 DID pick up the cookies, I can't check, because 5 replaced 4 in the applications-folder.
I tried your suggestion, additionally I checked the Firefox-settings and disabled all blocking plugins for testing purposes. There ARE cookies in Firefox, but Cookie doesn't seem to pick them up (screenshots). Shall I de- and reinstall Cookie?
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maybe try just deleting this folder:
~/Library/Containers/com.sweetpproductions.Cookie5also empty the trash, and then you may also need to restart/logout to >make the removal final
And that was, what I did…
The setup process started over, asking for permissions and so on, still, after completion no Cookies show up in Cookie, though I can view them in Firefox and Opera.
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I've just updated beta5.0b, with a little luck 5.0a will pick it up and install.
If not, you can download it from here:
https://sweetpproductions.com/products/cookie5/Cookie5.zipI have fixed all the bugs that everyone reported (that i could reproduce) and also tried to address a few usability concerns, heres the list of changes/fixes:
- fixed Chrome automated removal
- fixed permissions windows cancel
- fixed preferences not sticking when changed in setup window
- fixed Database non-favourites count
- fixed an issue with main window hiding other windows on activation
- fixed Purchase button disapearing
- slight rewording in preferences, main and setup windows (to hopefully make things a little easier to understand)
- chrome cache removal now aso removes site zoom preferences/http server properties/dns prefetching data
**NOTE: please backup you Chrome/Chromium/Opera folders, as i haven't thoroughly tested the expanded cache removal:
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/
~/Library/Application Support/Chromium/
~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/I also slightly tweaked the colour of the "All" browser settings tabs, and added a warning popover - perhaps ill make it so that this warning shows on first launch?
Also, I am leaning towards making the Preferences use a standard Preferences window, as I want to add more options in the future, and it is starting to get cluttered.
ALSO please open up the Preferences, and select the option to receive Beta updates as ill reset the standard update manifest.
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
And please let me know when your licenses expire, Ill generate you a license key.
you can easily reset the trial(and Cookie) by deleting the folder:
~/Library/Containers/com.sweetpproductions.Cookie5(you may also need to empty the trash and logout/login or restart your computer.)
thanks in advance everyone!
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another small update v5.0c:
- fixes non flagging of browser extensions
version 5.0b should also have fixed Sparkle updating (hopefully) so you should be able to update to v5.0c from within Cookie 5.0b.
please drop me an email at support@sweetpproductions.com for a beta license as they will be expiring sometime about now...
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for anyone experiencing crashing with 5c. please try re-downloading, as I mistakenely codesigned with the wrong Dev ID:
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another day,
another beta 5.0d:- fixed check for updates menu in preferences (double checked items)
- fixed whitelist (using the + or - button to manually add definitions would cause corruption)
You can update via the beta update channel in Preferences, or by using downloading manually:
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- Selecting "Text Only" toolbar style and then clicking anywhere on it resets the view to the default "Icon and Text".
- The "Use Small Size" toolbar style option seems to switch to slightly smaller font only as icons seem to be unaffected. Is that right? I would think that smaller icons would be displayed in this case.
Some minor usability notes.
Now when I want to delete all tracking cookies I have to switch from Cookies view to Settings and perform it there. It feels a little bit confusing (or perhaps misleading) to perform such operations at place called Settings.
It would be nice to be able to select all such cookies right in the Cookies view and be able to delete them. The context menu brought up by the secondary click action does only allow to select/unselect all of them. And maybe it could be possible to double-click on the red text in the info/search bar under the toolbar and select all related cookies that way as well. -
- Selecting "Text Only" toolbar style and then clicking anywhere on it resets the view to the default "Icon and Text".
Ill look into this for the next release.I have this fixed now and it will be in the next release.Now when I want to delete all tracking cookies I have to switch from Cookies view to Settings and perform it there. It feels a little bit confusing (or perhaps misleading) to perform such operations at place called Settings.
There should already be a "Remove all Tracking Cookies" button in the footer of that tab?
Any ideas for a better name for this tab?.... General....Options....Configure....Remove....I have version 5.0e (5.0.0.0.4) ready:
https://sweetpproductions.com/products/cookie5/Cookie5.zip
you can update via the Preferences (make sure your'e check for Beta releases)and heres the changes, its mostly cosmetic. (i'm toying with the idea of some bigger changes for beta 5.0f....)
- now using standard Preferences window
- updated licensing window
- renamed BROWSERS to FAVORITES in sourcelist
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v5.0f (5.0.0.0.5)
https://sweetpproductions.com/products/cookie5/Cookie5.zip
Some more small fixes:- fixed favoriting of "Local Storage" Databases please recheck your databases!
- renamed header on Settings tab sourcelist to better reflect the content of the tab
- fixed "text only" toolbar reverting to "icon + text"
