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!
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Cookie 6 and FirefoxTimer? 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. -
Cookie 6 and FirefoxI'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. -
Cookie 6 and FirefoxI 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.
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Cookie 6 and FirefoxSo far so good, though I do have a couple of forums where I get logged out - presumably cookies not being saved although marked as 'Favorites' - I have unchecked and then rechecked them in the Cookie window and we'll see if they stick. But so far, the first sign of corruption that used to happen (inability to export bookmarks) has not happened. Fingers crossed this works out as I would dearly love to use Cookie again.
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Cookie 6 and FirefoxConsiderable slowness getting rid of 'Unwanted Data' - wait a few minutes, force quite Cookie, restart it, realise a few hundred cookies are gone, wait a few more minutes and repeat etc. Eventually, all unwanted data is gone. I have a copy of my profile, and we will see how this goes. Havene't checked default search engine yet - just did, and it is still DuckDuckGo. Will be excited if Cookie works again!
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Cookie 6 and FirefoxI'll try it out, as I'm on Firefox 80.0.1. Will report back.
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Cookie 6 and FirefoxI disabled Cookie several months ago when it was corrupting my Firefox profile on deleting cookies. I was reminded today by the AppStore wanting to update it to ask whether it is safe to enable it again? When it worked, it was fantastic, but having to rebuild a profile of bookmarks, history, favicons and preferences was such a pain.
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Cookie 6 and Firefox Bookmark/History CorruptionJust got the 6.0.3 update from the app store, and my first trial Firefox quit has not led to the issue. Fingers crossed!
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Cookie 6 and Firefox Bookmark/History CorruptionI tried Cookie 6 again, and had the following:
On quitting Firefox I get Cookie 6 needs access to the following path ~Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/Nameofdefaultprofile/Storage/default but if I grant it the dialog just pops up again and again. Clicking Cancel does the same, and quitting Cookie 6 is greyed out. I have to quit Cookie 6 via Activity Monitor. Then I can reopen Cookie 6 and Firefox, but the same happens again next time I quit Firefox. It seems the Full Disk Access I granted at set up hasn't stuck. Adding it again in my Firewall options didn't stick either, but after dropping Cookie 5 in the trash (I kept a zipped archive of it in case I have to go back again) it does seem to stay in the in the list of apps in Firewall options. Sadly, though, now when I quit Firefox I get the red banner telling me the Bookmarks and History system is unavailable as it is in use by another application. Once again I have to replace the files mentioned in my original post to bring those functions back. This is v6.0.2 from the AppStore. -
Cookie 6 and Firefox Bookmark/History CorruptionI updated to Cookie 6 (AppStore version) today. Installed and imported settings. Quit Cookie 5 and decided to see if it worked. I quit Firefox, knowing all too well there can be corruption if cookies are removed when it is open, then selected Remove Unwanted Data. Re-opened Firefox to be greeted with the red banner telling me Firefox's Bookmark and History systems are not operational. So back to Time Machine to replace favorites.sqlite and places.sqlite in my Profile folder and all is well again. I think I'll run Cookie 5 for now and see if future updates improve this.
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Cookie doesn't see any Firefox cookiesThanks, Russell. You have the patience of a saint. I'll set Cookie 5 to only delete on browser quit and see if that ends the problem. I do believe that file is being corrupted, as I have just replaced places.sqlite, places.sqlite-shm and places.sqlite-wal from a TimeMachine backup from 24 hours ago when all was well, and it has returned normal function to address bar suggestions, bookmark deletion and export, and Cookie 5 shows Firefox cookies accumulating as expected.
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Cookie doesn't see any Firefox cookiesThe plot thickens. After a short while, things started going wrong in Firefox again. First thing was no suggestions from my History showing up when starting to type in the address bar, and next the complete inability to delete bookmarks. I wiped out Firefox entirely and installed it afresh. I created a brand new Firefox Sync account and imported bookmarks from a backup made of the entire SSD a couple of weeks ago. Then I started getting the problem with suggestions from History and I can't delete, or export bookmarks. Old, long deleted bookmarks show up that do not exist in my Firefox Sync account. I assume my places.sqlite file is corrupted. The question now is whether Cookie 5 interacts with this file at all? As far as I know, it stores history and bookmarks, but not cookies.
This is looking like a Firefox problem rather than a Cookie 5 problem if there is no modification of places.sqlite by Cookie 5. If you can confirm this to be the case I'll take this to mozilla. -
Cookie doesn't see any Firefox cookiesSo whilst Cookie was being agnostic about Firefox having any cookies at all, I decided to remove, once again, ~/Library/Containers/com.sweetproductions.Cookie5, having first exported favorites. This time after redoing the setup Firefox had lots of cookies, and some of them non-favorites! This was hopeful, so I browsed a few sites, and unwanted data started showing up in the Cookie menu, and cleared after selecting Remove Firefox Unwanted Data - hurray!
I'm very relieved. I set up various other browsers in the last 24 hours but none would suit as well as Firefox.
So for anyone else with the same problem, clear all Firefox cookies, refresh Firefox, trash Cookie 5's pref folder and set it up again. It might work....
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Cookie doesn't see any Firefox cookiesTrying again after a break. I have deleted all cookies from Firefox, and then refreshed it again from the troubleshooting page. Now Cookie 5 shows no cookies at all in the Firefox pane, after visiting several sites. It's as if Cookie just can't read Firefox's cookies.
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Cookie doesn't see any Firefox cookiesWell I'm giving up for now, and moving to Vivaldi, which seems to work just fine with Cookie 5!
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Cookie doesn't see any Firefox cookies@SweetP Still no new cookies showing up in Cookie. Nor after a restart. And just for fun, I've had to use Safari to add this as Firefox refuses to let me log in here ("Login Unsuccessful
We were unable to log you in, likely due to an expired session. Please try again")Later: cleared the cache, now it works and I can log in.
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Cookie doesn't see any Firefox cookies@SweetP I've sent the Tresorit link to your e-mail.
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Cookie doesn't see any Firefox cookies@SweetP Even zipped, the profile folder is 41MB. Is that alright or should I put it up on Dropbox?
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Cookie doesn't see any Firefox cookies@SweetP Firefox is 68.0.1