[Tutor] Advice on working with Firefox's cookies.sqlite

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Jun 27 13:03:16 EDT 2020


On 27/06/2020 17:44, Jim wrote:

> The problem is when I copy the file back to my profile directory and use 
> preferences to check for cookies, the deleted cookies have reappeared. 
> This seems to be the result of a file called cookies.sqlite-wal in the 
> same directory.

I assume you are closing all instances of Firefox down before copying
the new file into place? Otherwise Firefox is probably overwriting it
from a cache in memory or somesuch.

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