[Issue] delete container specific cookie

mozilla / multi-account-containers

Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs that preserve your privacy. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple identities or accounts simultaneously.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

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[Issue] delete container specific cookie #1390

Open RealDavidoff opened 5 years ago

RealDavidoff commented 5 years ago

This issue is not like https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1382 which is a feature request.

Instead I am reporting an actual issue IMHO:

website allows multiple accounts (pinterest)
am logged in, in one container
want to log in in different container
check cookies

seeing cookie updates that time-wise cannot be true (tab is discarded per other extension, or even hasn't been opened after browser start
there's no visible option to view nor delete container specific cookies (even BEFORE closing firefox, #1382); at the moment I cannot see which cookie I am dealing with when cookies are shown

2 relates back to 1: it's because of 2 that I check cookie updates (1) Since neither seems to work, I feel stuck?

Can someone please SHOW (any means, doesn't matter) which container contains (lol) which cookies?

I hope I could make myself understandable, else happy to provide more clarification.

Thank you all!

stoically commented 5 years ago

You could open the Developer Tools (Menu > Web Developer > Toggle Tools or Ctrl+Shift+I) and select Storage. There you can see the cookies which are set in the currently loaded container and website.

RealDavidoff commented 5 years ago

The idea is great yet impractical:

users seek not to see, but need to see and delete container specific cookies
many users can handle browser options (some not even that) but none can handle developer tools
and users see no need to, unless they are ... developers. ;-)

So no, what's needed instead is a simple UX to see and delete container specific cookies under browser options. Easiest: right click context menu.

stoically commented 5 years ago

Although I'd agree with that, managing of cookies in Firefox was simplified and which even removed inspecting single cookies - so I doubt that it'll get implemented in Firefox anytime soon.

Bananenschreck commented 5 years ago

Cookie AutoDelete supports containers. You could open the site in your mentioned container and then delete ist with Cookie AutoDelete. It's not pretty but it should do your job. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/

wirkkalaj commented 5 years ago

I used the developer tools to see the cookies for that particular site, but is there a way to see all of the cookies for a particular Container? That would be a nice feature. Even if it was only through the multi-container extension. I realize adding that to firefox's browser options would be difficult.