Firecookie 0.6 compatible with Firefox 3

by admin

Just a quick update for all who just installed fresh new Firefox 3 and want to use latest compatible Firecookie extension.

Download Firecookie 0.6

I would also strongly recommend to  use Firebug 1.2 with Firefox 3.

Firecookie 0.5 beta

by Honza

New version of Firecookie is now available. It includes a few bug fixes and bunch of new features. Thanks for all the ideas and comments you have posted!

This version is intended as beta and I would like to keep it here for some time. Even if it's quite stable, I would appreciate some testing and make sure everything works fine. As soon as I get positive feedback, I'll move it to Mozilla add on site. The review process will be easy then :-)

Download Firecookie 0.5beta5 (Latest Beta Version, compatible with Firefox 3 RC1)

Firecookie home page
Firecookie on Mozilla.org (Latest Version: 0.6 - Pending Review)

New features in v0.5 since v0.0.5 - big step ahead ;-) :

  1. List of cookies can be sorted by clicking on a column header (0.0.6).
  2. Click on a cookie event (cookie name) in the Console tab navigates the user to Cookie tab. (0.0.6)
  3. Cookies from all sub-domains of the current domain are displayed. (0.0.6)
  4. There is a new column with cookie size.
  5. The list can be filtered by cookie path (a filter option). So, only cookies matching the current path are displayed.
  6. Rejected cookies are displayed too (a filter option).
  7. Cookies from redirected domains are displayed too. This is useful e.g. in login systems, which can redirect the user over different domains while setting cookies.
  8. Cookies set from embedded iframes are displayed too.
  9. Columns in the cookie list are resizable. It's persistent and can be reset from context menu of the header.

And of course, if you would have any further ideas or comments please let me know! Especially the UI design is always tough (and your observation could have impact even on other features in Firebug). For instance, I am not sure about the way how the filtering is done...

Firecookie - Extension for Firebug

by Honza

I have been asked by a few people, why there is no support for managing cookies in Firebug. It's actually unbelievable that this great extension doesn't have that already. Even if there is a few nice Firefox extensions for cookie administration out there, it would be still very useful to have something like that directly within Firebug's UI. That's what they say...

Since I have some experience with Firebug's internal framework, I have reserved two entire weekends (and I have missed two movie-sessions with my friends) trying to accomplish the supplication. And here is what I have done. The extension is called Firecookie - it's for Firebug, heh :-) - and of course, you need to have Firebug installed if you want to check this out.

I have tested it with Firebug 1.05 and Firebug 1.1. It's also tested with Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.0b2 (Windows XP). All seem to be working well, but you know software is hard, so there might be some bugs ;-).

Anyway I would strongly recommend using entirely new Firebug 1.1 Beta, which is now available. Check it out John J. Barton, Justin Dolske and others have been working hard on it!

Please, drop me a line if you would have any ideas how to improve it. And of course, tell me if anything doesn't work as expected ;-)

The extension's home page is here.

Enjoy!