Cocoa Cookies is a very simple Cocoa app that helps you to search for and delete HTTP cookies stored in the shared Cocoa cookies storage. Including Undo and Redo capabilities! "What is the 'shared Cocoa cookies repository'?" I hear you asking... Well... it's a Cocoa API for storing cookies (NSHTTPCookieStorage class to be exact... but that's not important). A few popular Cocoa apps use it to store their cookies in a common, shared repository:
This one really really helped me out in an emergency. It seems to be the only thing that does what it does, and it works perfectly. Much much thanks to the developer for giving away such a fine and helpful tool!
This doesn't appear to save the locked cookies list when the program is closed. So if you restart the computer, you would have to reselect all the cookies you don't want deleted before doing "Remove All", which makes it less useful for me.
I wonder if this could be made into a Safari Extension to allow automated periodic deleting and so on?
Why not a safari extension? Sadly, for some of us out here, we can't use Leopard, and that is a prerequisite for a version of Safari that handles extensions...
How did I miss this for all these years? Perfect little application that cleans up the cookie mess and lets you protect cookies from domains you want to keep. Works with cookies from Safari 4 beta as well as prior versions.
Oh, I like this! One of the few things I've been missing from my Windows days is a good cookie manager. Cocoa Cookies is it! It does everything I want (sorts by domain, displays cookie info and allows me to protect favourite cookies), and nothing that I don't want. Highly recommended!
Still the best out there at what it does, but I wish it could separate out sites whose cookies I really do want to keep. If I turn off "group by domain" then I can click the lock to group all "locked" cookies together, but I want to go a step further and keep all cookies that my favorite sites give me, and see grouped together all the unknown sites that have given me cookies.
One of those super simple and super useful little applications. Does one thing, and does it perfectly. Perfect for developing sites, and doing a little house cleaning once in a while...
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Cocoa Cookies is a very simple Cocoa app that helps you to search for and delete HTTP cookies stored in the shared Cocoa cookies storage. Including Undo and Redo capabilities! "What is the 'shared Cocoa cookies repository'?" I hear you asking... Well... it's a Cocoa API for storing cookies (NSHTTPCookieStorage class to be exact... but that's not important). A few popular Cocoa apps use it to store their cookies in a common, shared repository:
Safari
Dashboard
NetNewsWire
Shiira
Those are the ones I know of... there may be more.
The easiest way to describe Cocoa Cookies is to tell you why I personally needed it. At work, I'm developing a web application for which I am constantly needing to delete specific cookies. I like to test and develop my web app primarily using Safari (occasionally stopping to test in EOMB [Every Other Modern Broswer], of course). Safari is also my preferred browser for personal use, so the number of cookies stored in my version of Safari at any one time is quite large. So when I decide I need to delete a specific cookie for my web app, I have to open Safari preferences, click the 'Security' toolbar icon, click 'Show Cookies' and then visually search thru the list of hundreds of cookies to find the ones that match the domain for my web app ('localhost.local' in this case). That is a pain in the ass. Safari's cookie-browsing UI does not currently include any way to search the stored cookies.
Cocoa Cookies allows you to view the cookies that Safari, or any other Cocoa app, has stored in the share cookie storage. More importantly, Cocoa Cookies contains a search field that provides live 'search-as-you-type' searching on the domains (only the domains) of the cookies stored. Thus, making it much easier to find and delete the specific cookies you are looking for.
Here's an extra bonus... NetNewsWire -- the most popular RSS reader on any platform, not only OS X -- is also a web browser that stores cookies in the shared Cocoa cookie storage. Additionally, NetNewsWire does not provide a UI for managing the cookies you amass while browsing. Use Cocoa Cookies to manage your NetNewsWire cookies!
It's simple, and it needs a little work... but I hope you like it.
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Frankhh24 reviewed on 15 Jun 2011
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David-Schiefer reviewed on 17 Mar 2011
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I wonder if this could be made into a Safari Extension to allow automated periodic deleting and so on?
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My only frustration is, Who is going to update this app? How does anyone live without it?
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http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/31018/safari-cookies
:)
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gary30 reviewed on 04 May 2009
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Drdul reviewed on 22 Aug 2007
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Zo219 reviewed on 20 Aug 2007
Missed something like this ever since I moved to Jaguar - that's a lot of time picking out rotten cookies.
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minimal design reviewed on 12 May 2007
quite Safari first.
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doesn't work at all here.
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hugelshofer rated on 25 Oct 2011
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Charliehodge rated on 02 Aug 2011
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cksum rated on 15 Jan 2011