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

[Jim]

On 6/27/20 12:03 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> 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.
> 

No I am trying to do it without shutting down Firefox. I normally have 3 
instances of Firefox open. 2 private and 1 normal. It's the normal one I 
am working on. At the end of the day I manually remove cookies I don't 
want so I am trying to automate the process. If I had to manually shut 
down all instances Firefox it would defeat the purpose of automation. If 
I can't find another solution I may try to just programmatically shut 
down the normal one, the private ones normally have multiple tabs open 
and I don't want to close them. Years ago I had a problem with Firefox 
crashing when trying to reopen tabs and since then I have always turned 
that setting off.

Regards,  Jim