Reviews for Flag Cookies
Flag Cookies by Jan Riechers
Review by Firefox user 14139753
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 14139753, 7 years agoCompared to my previous cookie manager, which stopped working around FFx 59, this is obviously a powerful and sophisticated tool. Unfortunately, I am finding it non-intuitive to use. What would help me is a brief tutorial centered around use cases. Give examples with screenshots of how Flag Cookies can be used to solve specific problems. And please use simple language. "Sub-domains are understood" is a short sentence, but its meaning is not immediately obvious to non-experts.
Edited to add: Before I study the help text on Github, here is something that is either a bug or I am not understanding FC at all. When I click on the cookie icon in a particular tab, the FC overlay window opens, top left corner says "Cookies for domain: https://www.ABC.com" but in fact, I am on page https://www.XYZ.com, page https://www.ABC.com is open two tabs over to the right! (And on that tab, FC does show the correct URL.)
Edited to add: Before I study the help text on Github, here is something that is either a bug or I am not understanding FC at all. When I click on the cookie icon in a particular tab, the FC overlay window opens, top left corner says "Cookies for domain: https://www.ABC.com" but in fact, I am on page https://www.XYZ.com, page https://www.ABC.com is open two tabs over to the right! (And on that tab, FC does show the correct URL.)
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you very much for your feedback. I started to work on a 'Help' section which is provided in the latest release of FlagCookies and I also tried to reword some of the information provided on the add on listing, as well as more meaningful tooltips.
The help or documentation can be viewed online at the FlagCookies wiki @ Github:
https://github.com/jrie/flagCookies/wiki/FlagCookies-help-and-documentation
At the moment of writing, this is work in progress. But I tried to provide a starting point inside there, about the basic "flag switches" and "modes" which are offered and where they might be possible used; so I gladly would invite to review this new addition.
Edit:
Is the issue you report reproduce able? Does this always occur?
Usually, the domain which got loaded should be displayed. I am also not sure which exact version you are using to get an insight if this was caused by another request interfering with what Flag Cookies thinks is the current active domain/tab you are on. But the issue might be resolved already in a later version.
In case you don't call a Github account your own, can you provide me with the urls of those two domains and the details which version you are using at the moment? You can drop me this information by email, using the support address and I try to troubleshoot the issue.
Or you can open an issue on Github instead.
The help or documentation can be viewed online at the FlagCookies wiki @ Github:
https://github.com/jrie/flagCookies/wiki/FlagCookies-help-and-documentation
At the moment of writing, this is work in progress. But I tried to provide a starting point inside there, about the basic "flag switches" and "modes" which are offered and where they might be possible used; so I gladly would invite to review this new addition.
Edit:
Is the issue you report reproduce able? Does this always occur?
Usually, the domain which got loaded should be displayed. I am also not sure which exact version you are using to get an insight if this was caused by another request interfering with what Flag Cookies thinks is the current active domain/tab you are on. But the issue might be resolved already in a later version.
In case you don't call a Github account your own, can you provide me with the urls of those two domains and the details which version you are using at the moment? You can drop me this information by email, using the support address and I try to troubleshoot the issue.
Or you can open an issue on Github instead.