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Please note that even if it doesn't work for you, it works for other people so it's probably a problem with your Firefox settings and not with the extension. See troubleshooting steps.
Permission Request Explanations
- Access your data for all websites: CAD requests this to delete cookies for all sites
- Clear recent browsing history, cookies and related data: Ability to delete Localstorage.
- Display notifications to you: Self explanatory.
- Read and modify privacy settings: Automatic detection of First Party Isolation support. Although the Privacy permission gives CAD "read and modify" permissions, NO MODIFICATIONS are done to your privacy settings, CAD only reads the setting of First Party Isolation. The privacy permission unfortunately cannot be given granular control, so this will stay for now.
- Access browser tabs: CAD uses this permission to display the site hostname in the popup for easy whitelisting/greylisting, displaying the amount of cookies for that site, and which rules apply to that site.
Take the permission wording with a grain of salt.
Main Features
- Auto Deletes Cookies from Closed Tabs
- WhiteList/GreyList Support for Cookies
- Easily Export/Import your Whitelist/Greylist
- Clear All Cookies for a Domain
- Supports Manual Mode Cleaning from the popup
- Easily See the Number of Cookies for a site
- Support for Container Tabs (Firefox 53+ Only)
Usage
This extension does not clean cookies automatically until you enable "Auto-clean". This gives you the chance to add sites to the WhiteList.
1. Add the sites you want to keep cookies in the WhiteList (permanently) or GreyList (until Browser restart)
2. Toggle "Auto-clean" in the popup or "Automatic cleaning" in the settings
3. Watch those unused cookies disappear :)
You must enable cookies in the browser as this extension will replace the internal cookie manager.
You can disable Cleanup Notifications via the Settings.
Popup Menu Features Clean: This is basically a quick way of activating the Cookie Cleanup on demand. This looks at all your cookies and deletes them if they are not in any Open Tabs or the WhiteList. Clean, include open tabs: Same thing as Cookie Cleanup except that it only deletes cookies only if they are not in the WhiteList. Open tabs are not taken into consideration. Clear All Cookies for This Domain: Easy way to delete all cookies for one particular domain that you are on.
Some things to Note:
- This extension can clear localstorage as of version 2.1.0 and Firefox 58+. Enable it in the settings.
- Even though third party cookies are cleared with this extension, it is better to disable third party cookies from the settings
Troubleshooting
- If anything goes wrong or cookies are not being deleted:
1. Clear all your cookies (start with a clean slate)
2. Reset settings other cookie extensions might have made in about:config -> restore default of all network.cookie.* preferences
3. WebExtension Cookie API is not compatible with first party isolation so make sure privacy.firstparty.isolate = false (this is fixed for Firefox 59+, make sure to restart the browser after enabling in about:config). Make sure you clear your cookies after changing this setting.
- If you are coming from SDC and find that some cookies are deleted on shutdown, it's probably because SDC still has it whitelist intact in Firefox permissions. In this case, try deleting permissions.sqlite in your profile.
- If you get notifications for a google cookie (with the name: NID) that can't be deleted, then it's probably this Firefox bug. The workaround is to just delete that cookie from Firefox's cookie manager.
- The Default Setting will clear any storage (including whitelists) made by the extension, but it is essentially a "clean slate".
- If nothing works, then you can make a new profile and see if the issue persists there.
- If a new profile still doesn't work or if you have any other problem, file an issue on GitHub. Maybe we can work it out.
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Please note that even if it doesn't work for you, it works for other people so it's probably a problem with your Firefox settings and not with the extension. See troubleshooting steps.
Permission Request Explanations
- Access your data for all websites: CAD requests this to delete cookies for all sites
- Clear recent browsing history, cookies and related data: Ability to delete Localstorage.
- Display notifications to you: Self explanatory.
- Read and modify privacy settings: Automatic detection of First Party Isolation support. Although the Privacy permission gives CAD "read and modify" permissions, NO MODIFICATIONS are done to your privacy settings, CAD only reads the setting of First Party Isolation. The privacy permission unfortunately cannot be given granular control, so this will stay for now.
- Access browser tabs: CAD uses this permission to display the site hostname in the popup for easy whitelisting/greylisting, displaying the amount of cookies for that site, and which rules apply to that site.
Take the permission wording with a grain of salt.
Main Features
- Auto Deletes Cookies from Closed Tabs
- WhiteList/GreyList Support for Cookies
- Easily Export/Import your Whitelist/Greylist
- Clear All Cookies for a Domain
- Supports Manual Mode Cleaning from the popup
- Easily See the Number of Cookies for a site
- Support for Container Tabs (Firefox 53+ Only)
Usage
This extension does not clean cookies automatically until you enable "Auto-clean". This gives you the chance to add sites to the WhiteList.
1. Add the sites you want to keep cookies in the WhiteList (permanently) or GreyList (until Browser restart)
2. Toggle "Auto-clean" in the popup or "Automatic cleaning" in the settings
3. Watch those unused cookies disappear :)
You must enable cookies in the browser as this extension will replace the internal cookie manager.
You can disable Cleanup Notifications via the Settings.
Popup Menu Features Clean: This is basically a quick way of activating the Cookie Cleanup on demand. This looks at all your cookies and deletes them if they are not in any Open Tabs or the WhiteList. Clean, include open tabs: Same thing as Cookie Cleanup except that it only deletes cookies only if they are not in the WhiteList. Open tabs are not taken into consideration. Clear All Cookies for This Domain: Easy way to delete all cookies for one particular domain that you are on.
Some things to Note:
- This extension can clear localstorage as of version 2.1.0 and Firefox 58+. Enable it in the settings.
- Even though third party cookies are cleared with this extension, it is better to disable third party cookies from the settings
Troubleshooting
- If anything goes wrong or cookies are not being deleted:
1. Clear all your cookies (start with a clean slate)
2. Reset settings other cookie extensions might have made in about:config -> restore default of all network.cookie.* preferences
3. WebExtension Cookie API is not compatible with first party isolation so make sure privacy.firstparty.isolate = false (this is fixed for Firefox 59+, make sure to restart the browser after enabling in about:config). Make sure you clear your cookies after changing this setting.
- If you are coming from SDC and find that some cookies are deleted on shutdown, it's probably because SDC still has it whitelist intact in Firefox permissions. In this case, try deleting permissions.sqlite in your profile.
- If you get notifications for a google cookie (with the name: NID) that can't be deleted, then it's probably this Firefox bug. The workaround is to just delete that cookie from Firefox's cookie manager.
- The Default Setting will clear any storage (including whitelists) made by the extension, but it is essentially a "clean slate".
- If nothing works, then you can make a new profile and see if the issue persists there.
- If a new profile still doesn't work or if you have any other problem, file an issue on GitHub. Maybe we can work it out.
BTC: 16km6pFV33S6kaeb8rCaDLZXUyo3uyVnsk