I hate having to login to certain sites over and over, especially if I've enabled two-factor authentication on my account and can't be bothered opening Authy on my phone every time, so I like to keep my cookies for as long as possible. However, an overabundance of cookies in your Firefox profile directory is both a privacy and a performance nightmare, and it's often necessary to clear your cookies in order to correct certain browsing issues, which means re-logging into all of your usual haunts.

With Cookie AutoDelete, you can choose which cookies you want to keep, and it will automatically (or manually, if you like) delete all of the other cookies that you haven't specifically protected. It protects cookies by whitelisting URLs whose cookies you want to keep, and you can choose only to protect certain types of cookie from specific sub-domains. You can also specify how often and under what circumstances you wish the add-on to silently clear unprotected cookies in the background. If you like, you can have the add-on notify you every time it does this. The toolbar icon shows the number of cookies the current URL is generating and the icon is also colour-coded to show whether or not cookies are protected on the current URL (blue for "yes", red for "no"). The convenience and usability of Cookie AutoDelete is very high.

There's not much in the way of competition for this add-on, it's simply the best of its kind that I've used. I'm including in that comparison those cookie-management add-ons which are exclusive to other browsers like Chrome.

20180615-Fr., Sweeps up the cookies w/ nice controls.

brutale disparition des addons jugés obsolètes par Mozilla !

Super useful and flexible!

The "clean" button is confusing. There's no indication of what it does since it doesn't seem to affect the current domain. I always use the dropdown to do the cleaning I want.

It was confusing that this isn't like Self-Destructing Cookies in that cleaning cookies and localstorage when you leave a domain isn't enabled by default. But worse, even when that's enabled, it doesn't work properly. I keep having to use the option to manually clean cookies for domains I last visited days before (mainly news sites that give a limited number of articles per month and warn me that I have only one article left). I have an older system with the Self-Destructing Cookies extension and it has no such problems with the exact same sites.

love it !!

just grt extension

Does a great job of killing cookie trackers and has a nice interface for whitelisting exceptions. Now I don't have to worry that I am going to forget that I am being tracked as I switch between sites.

Works great with very few glitches. You cannot have enough privacy in this day and age, either from FANG companies, the Federal Government, etc.

IT JUST WORKS

Super add-on, does exactly what it promises with lots of possible settings. This should be directly integrated in a browser that takes privacy seriously. I love that localstorage is managed too.

Thank goodness for this extension. Finally a way to "change your cookie settings at any time" like all the privacy notification popups tell you you can.

Amazing Addon. Great many thanks to the developer for this work.

Two suggestions:

1. Functionality: Ability to set default clean action in the pop up menu. Currently the default action of the clean button is to clear all cookies except whitelist, but the most used action is clearing cookies for the current domain. Could it be possible to let user select the default action of the button or set the default action as clear cookies from current domain.

1. Aesthetics: The logo improvement: The circular badge being of the same color as of the bin, it is not very clear especially when it shows as a little button in the firefox. My suggestion is to loose the circle and make the bin with lid and cookie as the logo. The Popup Menu Improvement: The width of the menu could be made smaller, and the color scheme of the buttons be more subtle, currently they are too strong colors.