monline

The default Firefox cookie management is not very sophisticated. I guess it's OK for users who don't know any better, but people with some knowledge about online security & tracking & enough paranoia to care might want to have a tighter control over which site is allowed to track them and their activities. Cookie Monster is the right tool for the task. It sits in your addon bar and shows you what cookies are set for what domain/site and exactly how the permission for a specific site came to be (from which rules). It gives you easy understanding and access to cookie control.


Btw. Firefox already has the ability to set a default deny to a domain (eg. google.com) and specific permissions/allow rules for sites (eg. mail.google.com, accounts.google.com, plus.google.com, etc.). This way you can use Google search without being tracked (and the searches being linked to your Google account) and still use the various Google products (like Plus and Gmail) conveniently (ie. being logged in all the time).

Firefox does a poor job at making this accessible and easily understandable (I guess the majority of the user base is not interested in these security/privacy issues). Fortunately Cookie Monster comes to the rescue.