How Do I Copy And Save Specific Individual Firefox Cookies

[NewW7User]

I'm having a problem with a website using Firefox and their answer is delete all cookies. I need to keep some/parts of the cookies from this website because I doubt the cookies are the problem and need some of what's saved in them; if deleting them doesn't fix the problem I want to restore these cookies. Is there a way to copy, save and then copy back individual cookies, rather than exporting all cookies, deleting all cookies and having to import everything back?

 

[Alejandro85]

I'm really wondering what valuable info for you could be contained in cookies that merit saving them. Usually, nothing confidential ends up there, because the user can trivially access (and modify) them, and are used mostly as a tracking artifact for delivering spam and for holding session identifiers.

That said, here's how you do it:
Open the website, right click on empty space and click "Inspect", this will bring the Developer Tools window (could be docked to the page by default). Go to the "Storage" tab and on the left menu you'll find the cookies option, click it and it'll show all the stored cookies for this page.
From there you can copy what you need. If you double click any item you can modify it to whatever you want and by right clicking you can even add new ones as you please. When done reload the page for the web server to read your changes.
You can apply the same thing to Local Storage and some other storage options within the browser too.

For other browsers the process is very similar, if not exactly the same. Firefox clones will be pretty much the same, as all Chrome clones would be equal between them.

 

[townsbg]

Tools > Settings > Privacy & Security > Manage Data allows you to select the sites that you want to clear cookies for. You can search or arrange by either date or size. It's useful for freeing up space by clearing cookies for sites that you don't access frequently.