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Firefox for windows cookie help needed

  • 09-04-2005 2:54pm
    #1
    LostinBlanch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭


    Apologies if I'm not in the right forum. I want to know how to copy cookies from Firefox. I'm running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0 on XP.

    I need to copy cookies from a website that has my passwords, profile etc and transfer them onto my laptop. I've forgotten the password and the email that I had given was my old work one which is no longer available. Can anyone help?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    If you're using an NT-based version of Windows (NT, 2K, XP), look for a file called cookies.txt in the following location...

    C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.RANDOM

    ...where USERNAME is your Windows username, and RANDOM is a random string of characters. If you have more than one Firefox profile, you'll need to figure out which one the cookie is stored in.

    In that file you'll need to look for the line that represents the appropriate cookie and (AFTER BACKING UP) copy it across to the corresponding file on the laptop. Firefox should be closed when you're working on the file.

    Moz-based browsers can be finicky about cookies, so ymmv. In fact it might not work at all, or even corrupt all your other cookies. So if you're at all unsure of what you're doing, don't do it.

    MozillaZine is a much better place to ask questions like this btw.

    adam


  • #3
    LostinBlanch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭LostinBlanch


    Thanks Adam I'll give this a go and see what happens.


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