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

[Jim]

On 6/27/20 1:35 PM, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 6/27/20 12:31 PM, Jim wrote:
> 
>>> I would look at writing a Firefox extension to do the cookie cleanup (if
>>> there isn't one already that does a close enough job) rather than
>>> something outside of Firefox.
>>
>> I know I don't have the expertise to do that. Having to manually delete
>> some cookies is not a big deal, I just enjoy programing with Python so I
>> look for things I can automate.
> 
> There's something called SpeedyFox - it's not a plugin - which knows how
> to clean up/compact sqlite databases for many browsers (and
> Thunderbird), but I'm not aware that it operates on the cookie database.
>   And it does ask that you shut down the browser before cleaning...
> 

When I get a chance I'll try shutting down just the normal one and see 
if that helps.

Regards,  Jim