Reviews for Clear Cookies and Storage Button
Clear Cookies and Storage Button by lumerias
20 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14565206, a year agofalta que agreguen una lista blanca para no borrarlas paginas frecuentes (cookies)que uno ocupa y solo eliminar las demas
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bob Dobb, 2 years agoI've been using this add-on for years along side Cookie Quick Manager and other security add-ons and it works very well. It's called Clear Storage Button on my El Capitan Mac and I see the name has changed a bit but it still works. I still have to remove some persistent things like YouTube, from my Firefox Preferences > Privacy Security pane, but I don't expect perfection or anything to do everything I want or need. Security takes lots of work, learning, attention and vigilance as bad folk change their methods all the time. Unfortunately, inconvenience is part of keeping as secure as one can. In other words, security and privacy ain't easy!
I fully appreciate all the work that goes into good add-ons, apps and thank and appreciate the (honest and philanthropic) people that make them and share their work with us!! - Rated 4 out of 5by flyingbag, 5 years agoDoes what it says on the tin. However it would be far superior if it would pay attention to FireFox 'Multi-Account Containers' I am using this to clear storage and cookies when testing my authentication solutions, however I would prefer to keep on user logged in one one tab (different container) and another test user in another tab (container) and to be able to wipe storage/cookies just for one of the containers. Would make testing a breeze.
Thanks! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14300652, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ландграф71, 5 years agoОтличная чистилка, удаляет все. Для меня только один недостаток: после очистки вылетает из синхронизации firefox. Пробовал играться с настройками - не помогает.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15254189, 5 years agoBeing able to click once and have things deleted is over-kill because it's too easy to accidentally click it and be rid of things you don't want gone.
ETA: Thanks for the extra info.Developer response
posted 5 years ago1) Yes, it deletes everything. Wanted behaviour. You are free to supply a patch for configurable cookie deletion.
2) Per default-preferences it deletes cookies, indexedDB and localStorage. In add-on preferences you can add "Cache" to wipe cached web content as well - if that's what you mean by "local storage files". - Rated 5 out of 5by Marty, 6 years agoSimple button, cleans the cookies out nicely.
Two requests: could you consider changing the color of the icon (maybe orange so it’s not hard on the eyes) when there are stored cookies and back to green when deleted? Also, give the option to disable notification? It wouldn’t be needed anyway if the icon changed colors. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14475323, 6 years agoWish this worked as advertised but it doesn't. After clicking on the icon, I have to go back into Privacy & Security > Manage Data and delete cookies manually. I see the developer's response to some similar concerns that s/he can't reproduce the failure but it seems to be reproducible for a lot of us.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoSorry to hear that your experience is negative. Please help to track this down:
Make sure that Firefox is not tricking you here. Having a tab with about:preferences#privacy open while clicking the "clear" button caches the displayed cookies in some way. Opening the 'remove cookies' dialog on this page (about:preferences#privacy) will show cookies - although they're already gone.
Please try this:
- make sure about:preferences#privacy is not open
- open a fresh tab, go to some website and log in,
- browse around to confirm you are logged in,
- open about:preferences#privacy and confirm a cookie from that site has been set.
- close about:preferences#privacy
- then click the "clear"button and browse on that site more - you should be logged out again.
- open about:preferences#privacy and confirm cookies are empty - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14510053, 6 years agoIt does not work. Cookies remain active even after several clicks. Completely useless.
- Rated 1 out of 5by CanIregisterThisTime, 6 years agoSometimes deletes sessions. I restart the browser and am left with no tabs from last time. I guess it's a glitch because it doesn't do it all the time. I've lost some important work and am desperately trying to retrace my steps, but it's not looking good.
- Rated 5 out of 5by brotherhsu1024, 6 years agoThank you very much. This is a relatively good component and the choices are more user-friendly, the current session retain cookies. I like it
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14165571, 6 years agoLove the add-on, would it be possible to have the option of auto-refresh after clearing?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nik, 6 years agoI like this addon because it doesnt use so many permissions like other similar addons do. Thank you for making this available to us and please keep it updated.
- Rated 4 out of 5by piecevcake, 7 years agoVERY useful. Would be 5 stars if it offered a choice of current container or global.
Would be 100 stars if it could explain what each cookie did! (I sometimes don't want to log out, but need to clear whatever is causing outdated or slanted info on a page- which hasnt been fixed by deleting cache.) Developer response
posted 7 years agoOnly by default- that's wanted behaviour!
(Or can you confirm that it fails to do so even after checking to clear Downloads in Extras > Add-ons -> settings ?)- Rated 5 out of 5by noname, 7 years agothanks for developer, its working very well
maybe can add option to disable notification after delete - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11640498, 7 years agoVery, very, very nice add-on! Thank you!
Also, I believe it is the tiniest/lightweight add-on in its category. Congratulations!
Please, I have 1 simple question and 1 simple request:
1) Simple question: I have an add-on for RSS feeds (FEEDBRO), generating tons of cookies and webgarbage. Is ClearCookiesAndStorageButton deleting 100% of everything in the browser?
2) Simple request: Please, add an option to clean automatically every "x" minutes.
Thank you any way!
ANSWERING THE DEV: Thank you for your prompt replay. Please, allow me few comments.
1) In Extensions => Add-on => Option, even if I select everything to be wiped, cookies and webgarbage from other add-ons (FEEDBRO) are not deleted.
2) An option to clean automatically every "x" minutes, not necessary will be against "the user knows best when". For example, if "X" by default is "0", the user always will keep control. So, I hope you will reconsider the possibility to add this option. Thank you!
3) Does your add-on work with First Party Isolation and Containers?Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for the kind words!
1) The Add-On wipes every cookie (without any filtering), and every other of the browser's storage backends you select in the Add-On's configuration (Extras > Add-Ons).
2) The philosophy is "the user knows best when...", thus the button. Doing it every x minutes could end a login session you are currently using, etc. But the feature may make sense for some usage scenarios, so thank you.
3) No, it doesn't. FF's cookies semantics remain the same. The button is only a shorthand for going into about:preferences#privacy - with a few helpers for other FF data stores.
That also answers your second 1): Try a login on some page, click the button and you're logged out - as all session data stored in cookies will be gone. As it sounds, your specific Add-On (i) - an Add-On is not a web app/page - seems to store data in it's FF config area (check about:config). This data is not wiped, as it belongs to an Add-On that you installed. The button wipes (normal) web originated data.