Removing stale cookies (3.6.15)

[ChrisGreaves]

I'm considering house-cleaning my Firefox cookies.
Plan "A" is to delete all the cookies and face the consequences (a week of logging back in ...)
Plan "B" is to sort the cookies into date-last-accessed sequence and delete the least-used 90% of them.

Is there any easy way to sort the cookies in date sequence?
I don't fancy spending one or two hours wading through a set of cryptic names. "KeepVid.com" I can understand, but "paulereynoldswins" and similar items defeat me.

P.S. Sometimes "A new broom sweeps clean" is the least-effort. I'm leaning heavily in favor of Plan A. It might be a good time to review my browsing habits ...

[HansV]

If you have a list of all your passwords, I'd prefer plan "A".

[Bigaldoc]

How 'bout a cookie manager addon, of which there are a bunch. This one looks like it might do what you want to do:

Cookies Manager+ :: Add-ons for Firefox

[stuck]

I'm with Hans, make sue you know all your passwords and then blitz the lot.

However, if you use Ccleaner to scrub the cookies you can first tell Ccleaner which ones you want to retain and so have you cake and eat it in a manner of speaking.

Ken

[ChrisGreaves]

This one looks like it might do what you want to do:

It might.
But I don't like the look of the developer (grin)

Thanks, Al. I see the first snapshot shows "Date Created", and maybe I'd be able to sort by that.
I'm tempted to "blitz", just because there are so many cookies, and it might do me good to select cookie candidates by hand as I re-build them.

[ChrisGreaves]

I'm with Hans, make sue you know all your ...

That's all you lawyers think about, isn't it (grin)

... can first tell Ccleaner which ones you want to retain

Therein lies my problem.
There are just so many of them that I don't fancy working through them.

It's a bit like "freeing up space on the hard drive".
The slowest method is to inspect and delete files.
The fastest method is to get in the car, collect a new drive from HardwareTavern (whatever ...), and use RoboCopy to copy everything to the new drive.

[ChrisGreaves]

If you have a list of all your passwords, I'd prefer plan "A".

I think so.
My passwords for everything are held in a file that isn't called "PassWords.doc" that sits on an encrypted drive whose password is part of my life in the Rossendale (!) Valley 57 years ago.
Fairly secure, I think ....

[stuck]

Therein lies my problem. There are just so many of them that I don't fancy working through them.

A start up cost yes but thereafter every time you run Ccleaner all the rubbish goes and it's quick and painless.

Ken

[Bigaldoc]

Just a side comment regarding Chris' "Plan B"

I checked my Fx cookies and I presently have 2,811 of those suckers and all seem to have been accessed no earlier than May 2011. Hmmm, mine aren't old at all it seems.

[ChrisGreaves]

A start up cost yes but thereafter every time you run Ccleaner all the rubbish goes and it's quick and painless.

Oh.
I think I see.
A bit like a spam filter; On the first pass I'd be telling CCleaner which ones are "good", and thereafter (weekly?) would only have to sift through the "bad" to see if there are any "good" worth keeping?

Since I have just deleted (well, renamed, actually) my files, I might re-install CCleaner now ...

[stuck]

On the first pass I'd be telling CCleaner which ones are "good", and thereafter (weekly?) would only have to sift through the "bad" to see if there are any "good" worth keeping?

Yes, the thereafter rate is entirely up to you.

Ken

[ChrisGreaves]

Yes, the thereafter rate is entirely up to you.

Thanks Ken.

[PJ_in_FL]

Ok, I'm still surprised no one suggested eating the dang cookies before they got stale!