Cookie Viewer

 



** Updated June 19, 2007

Discover the information that web sites store on your computer. This Power Tool automatically scans your computer, looking for 'cookies' created by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Netscape's Navigator and Mozilla Project's FireFox web browsers. It can then display the data stored in each one. It can also delete any unwanted cookies stored by these browsers.

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View cookies Open Microsoft Edge and then select Settings and more Settings Site permissions. Select Cookies and site data. Here you can set specific controls for cookies. They are also the cause of all of those annoying 'this page uses cookies' consent forms that you see across the web. This guide teaches you how to view, edit, and delete a page's cookies with Chrome DevTools. Open the Cookies pane # Open Chrome DevTools. Click the Application tab to open the Application panel. The Manifest pane will probably open. Cookie Viewer Version 1.05 Cookies provide websites with a mechanism to store and retrieve state information on your computer. This mechanism allows Web-based applications the ability to store information about selected items, user preferences, registration information, and other information that can be retrieved later. How to View Cookies. This wikiHow teaches you how to view your browser's cookies, which are small pieces of website data, on the desktop versions of Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, and Safari.

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Enhancements/Bugs Fixed

  • Version 3.6: Made several changes to make program work better with Windows Vista. These include changes in the location where settings are stored, and an HTML-format help file.
  • Version 3.5.6: Recompiled program with updated folder browser control, API.bas library. Also 'Locked' text boxes that display cookie dates, lifetime, scope and Secure setting, preventing accidental changes by user.
  • Version 3.5.5: Added ability to select several cookies for deletion at one time, by placing a checkmark next to one cookie, then holding down the <Shift> key while placing a checkmark next to another cookie. All cookies between the two entries will automatically be selected also.
  • Version 3.5.4: Program deletes its Netscape/FireFox cookie backup file (cookies.bk?), if no deletions were made.
  • Version 3.5.3: Fixed bug that sometimes prevented program from displaying Netscape Navigator cookies.
  • Version 3.5.2: Fixed bug that caused the new Help button to be misplaced on form if main form's height is changed.
  • Version 3.5.1: Fixed problem caused by FireFox cookies with very long lifetimes (approximately 100 years or more).
  • Version 3.5: Now supports FoxFire browser cookies. Also allows user to manually browse for specific cookie folders and files, in addition to previous ability to automatically search for cookies. New user interface displays cookies with multiple value/data pairs better.
  • Version 3.3: Incorporates the results of the 'Great Cookie Hunt' to improve the viewer's initial cookie locator. The new version can also understand cookie locations found in the Registry, written in Unicode, or which contain Environment Strings. The DEL key can now be used to delete cookies, in addition to the 'Delete' button on the program's main window. Finally, a bug was fixed that caused a crash when the last Microsoft Internet Explorer cookie was deleted from a particular location.
  • Version 3.2.1: Fixes a problem that caused version 3.2 to sometimes fail after a search for all cookies was performed. It also includes an enhancement that allows users to delete Netscape cookies even if a backup of the Netscape cookie file cannot be created.
  • Version 3.2: Fixes a problem with 'immortal' Netscape cookies, that caused version 3.1 to fail with a overflow error. This version also has an improved cookie scanner, that omits directories with no likely cookie suspects.
  • Version 3.1: Displays the expiration dates and times of cookies stored by Netscape Navigator, plus those cookies' 'lifetime' in days, hours, minutes and seconds. It also fixes a bug that prevented version 3.0 from displaying Microsoft Internet Explorer cookies with expiration dates after the year 2038.
  • Version 3.0: Displays the creation and expiration dates and times of cookies stored by Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE), plus those cookies' 'lifetime' in days, hours, minutes and seconds. Version 2.6 allows you to visit the site that created a cookie, by clicking on the site's name in the 'Available to' box.
  • Version 2.5: Can delete Netscape cookies.
  • Version 2.4: Can delete Microsoft Internet Explorer cookies.
  • Version 2.3: Can search your hard disk(s) for cookies stored in non-standard locations.
  • Version 2.2: Fixed a bug that caused the program to crash if it deleted the last cookie in a list.
  • Version 2.1: Allows you to select more than one cookie at a time, for deletion.
  • Version 2.0: Adds a 'Search' feature, to automatically find cookies in non-standard locations. It can also delete cookies created by Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
  • Version 1.2: Fixes a problem with the screen location memory that sometimes caused the window to dissappear (be displayed off-screen).
  • Version 1.1: Remembers its last screen location, and returns to that location the next time it is run.

“Cookie” is a small text file stored in your Internet browser. Cookies provide the information about the user to various websites they visit. Without cookies, the websites can’t store any information regarding the visitors. Cookies can keep track of your movements within the site, help you resume from exactly where you left off, remember your registered login ID, theme selections, different preferences, and many other customization functions. Many websites make use of cookies to store information about the users to provide a better user experience. But some of the stealers also uses the cookies to steal the information. Anyway, cookies can track the information of the users upon their confirmation.

The above picture shows a cookie warning used by the askubuntu website. They are a trusted source, so they are using the information about the user to improve the user experience on their website. So, if you want to know How to View Cookies in your Computer, Read on.

How to View Cookies in Google Chrome

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  1. Open Google chrome browser.
  2. Click on the menu icon on the top right corner of the browser window.
  3. Click on the Settings option from the drop-down list.
  4. Once you are on the settings window, scroll down to Show advanced settings option and click on it.
  5. Scroll to the Privacy section.
  6. Click on the Content Settings Button.
  7. The content settings box will pop up.
  8. Scroll down to the cookies section.
  9. Click the All Cookies and Site Data button.
  10. Now, you can view the cookies of your computer.

How to View Cookies in Mozilla Firefox

  1. Open Mozilla firefox browser.
  2. Click the Tools option on the main menu of the browser.
  3. Click on the Option from the drop-down list.
  4. Go to the Privacy tab.
  5. Locate the Remove Individual Cookies.
  6. Now, you will get the cookies list in firefox.

How to View Cookies in Safari Browser

  1. Open Safari browser
  2. Click on the Action menu which looks like a gear button located on the top-right corner of the browser window.
  3. Select Preferences option from the drop-down list.
  4. Navigate to the Privacy tab.
  5. Click on the Details button.
  6. Now, you can see the cookies in your safari browser.
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How to View Cookies in Internet Explorer

  1. Open Internet Explorer
  2. Click on Tools on the main menu of the browser.
  3. In the drop-down list, select Internet Options.
  4. Click on the Settings button under the Browsing history section in General tab.
  5. Click on the View Files button.
  6. Now, a window will open which contains your cookie files.
  7. Scroll down till you see the files named cookies.

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