Calling really clever firefox experts!

Tozer

Hi

Any idea how you can have a look at cookies downloaded by Firefox and, in particular, check when they were last updated. In other words when a website was last visited?

Got a bit of an IT security issue.

Thanks!

mymatebob

Try this perhaps - under Tools>options>privacy

Although not sure if it shows you when a site was last visited - have tried History - sorry a bit obvious

The View Cookies Window


Use the View Cookies window to view and remove cookies. To access it,
click the View Cookies button in cookies optionspreferences.


This window lists all cookies currently stored on your
computer, grouped by site. You can expand the sites and select a cookie to
display more information about it. You can also search for a site or a cookie
name by typing in the search bar.


To remove a cookie from the list, select it and click Remove Cookie.
To remove a site's cookies, select the site and click Remove
Cookie(s). To remove all cookies, click Remove All Cookies.

Tozer

mymatebob wrote: »

Try this perhaps - under Tools>options>privacy

Although not sure if it shows you when a site was last visited - have tried History - sorry a bit obvious

The View Cookies Window


Use the View Cookies window to view and remove cookies. To access it,
click the View Cookies button in cookies optionspreferences.


This window lists all cookies currently stored on your
computer, grouped by site. You can expand the sites and select a cookie to
display more information about it. You can also search for a site or a cookie
name by typing in the search bar.


To remove a cookie from the list, select it and click Remove Cookie.
To remove a site's cookies, select the site and click Remove
Cookie(s). To remove all cookies, click Remove All Cookies.

Thanks for that. Unfortunately it doesn't actually show the dates.

mymatebob

I thought that might be the case
Nuisance - you will need to wait for a properly clever person I fear

espresso

Tozer wrote: »

Thanks for that. Unfortunately it doesn't actually show the dates.

You expand and click on the actual cookie to highlight it and the info is then displayed in the lower window.

isofa

The cookies are stored here:

C:\Documents and Settings\Your_Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\random_set_of_profile_letters.default

Within this folder is a file called cookies.txt

However the date information is encoded in date stamps which isn't very readable to the viewer!

The best way to view them is explained above by mymatebob and espresso.

isofa

PS typing

about:cache

into the address bar will bring up details of the cache files, which are expandable so you can see when visits were made (in a more technical way to the history).

Bob63

Firefox doesn't show the last accessed date by default. This is the date you need.

If you are using Firefox 3 then in the user profile directory you will find a file called cookies.sqlite - this is where the cookies are stored. Using the sqlite database browser you can open this file and look at the individual cookies. The last accessed date will be a very long integer - in Unix timestamp format. Copy the first 10 digits into this webpage and it will give you the time the cookie was last accessed.

I don't have Firefox 2 any more but I'm pretty sure it uses the same unix timestamp so again copy the first 10 digits into the timestamp converter.

Clunky but it works...