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Also: Firefox seems to discourage you from messing with cookies. For example: I can't select cookies by TLD. I have to painstakingly go through the list, clicking each host and clicking "Remove". Compare the cooking management functionality with the next tab over, password management. There you can filter the list as you want. So it is possible.

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Both Chrome and Firefox utterly loose out against Opera in that department, where you can actually edit the cookies, without jumping through any "expert" hoops. Admittedly I don't think I ever used that for anything but debugging, but I still think it's a nice touch, and I am sure someone out there learned a thing or two about websites and browsing just by studying the Opera config dialog.

One of the more important plugins when doing fresh installs are some kind of cookie jar. Mozilla should really pull one of the nicer plugins into the project and just make it default.

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