[Windows] Firefox keeps random site data (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by birdcat@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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I've enabled "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" but while all cookies gets deleted, some random site data does not. Are my settings wrong, is this a bug, and what even is that data?

Additional Info: I use RFP, want to keep browsing history and site settings. Thank you very much.

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[-] viking@infosec.pub 9 points 3 months ago

That could simply be the cookies.txt file with no content whatsoever.

[-] knightly@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Firefox stores cookies in a DB file called cookies.sqlite, i just cleared cookies on a fresh new Firefox profile and the file is 524.3kB. A text dump of the file has four lines of text that describe the structure of the cookie database and that's it. No actual content.

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