Ability to search the cookie exceptions list
After years of using the Firefox with the "ask me every time" option on cookie setting, I have ended up with a cookies exceptions list with thousands of entries. And yet there is currently no way to do a pattern matching search/find on the exceptions list. So whenever I need to find a domain/site address in the list that I am not sure about the full name of the particular address, I'll need to go through the long long list one by one to try to find it, and many times, not able to find it at all because this is an almost impossible manual task. There should be a way to do a pattern matching search/find on the exceptions list. This is essential to really able to manage a long long exceptions list with more than just a few hundreds of entries.
I understand that currently you can type the first few characters and it will take you to the entry that with the first few characters matching what you have typed. But this is not nearly enough to really be able to find an entry that you only know part of it's name or address. A true pattern matching search/find on any part of any and all entries, similar to the "Edit"->"Find" feature for web contents, would be essential.
Chosen solution
Hi all,
I believe, the "CookieExFilter 1.0" on
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/cookieexfilter/
does exactly what you need: It adds a search field to the cookie exception list which you will be able to use with usual wildcards * and ?.
Regards, Klaus
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What's needed is something like
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1243/
but the reviews about crashing make it a non-starter.
Perhaps it could be enabled only when needed? I won't be testing that so don't wait for me.
This should have been in Firefox ever since they changed to SQLite, it's so obviously needed.
I've been searching for a very long time and I'm surprised that the previous post of 9/07/2010 is the first I've come across.
To help Google I'm adding "whitelist" clnee's subject line has everything else I would think of.
My current solution is to "remove" every site that is blocked and go from there. Also, I've recently added HttpFox addon to watch cookies but I haven't used it more than a few minutes yet. It looks useful if it doesn't slow things down. A more comprehensive addon is Firebug but it is way more than I want to see.
One other feature Firefox could add would be to sort by time, since the cookies of interest would be recent and, for checkout payment, usually have no part of the name in common with the original site. HttpFox might be useful here.
Modified by Windon Farms
This is by no means ideal, but using the CookieSafe extension, you can Export Exceptions to an xml file, which can then be opened (and searched) in a text editor.
Unfortunately the act of exporting exceptions seems to take a few minutes, during which Firefox pretty much locks up. But if you can't find the troublesome blocked cookie any other way . . .
You can set focus to the exception area with a left mouse click and quickly type the first letters to do a search, just like you can do with other such lists.
Chosen Solution
Hi all,
I believe, the "CookieExFilter 1.0" on
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/cookieexfilter/
does exactly what you need: It adds a search field to the cookie exception list which you will be able to use with usual wildcards * and ?.
Regards, Klaus
Finally there's the solution exactly what I am looking for! Thanks so much khelmsch_de!