Andrew R. Jones » Firebug http://andrew-jones.com Andrew Jones' Site Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:30:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Working With Cookies? Get Firecookie! http://andrew-jones.com/2009/05/11/working-with-cookies-get-firecookie/ http://andrew-jones.com/2009/05/11/working-with-cookies-get-firecookie/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 08:00:22 +0000 Andrew Jones http://andrew-jones.com/?p=196 I have recently been working with cookies from JavaScript and started looking for a Firefox extension to help. I knew there would be plenty[1], so I started to try a couple. Then I stumbled on Firecookie and the search was over!

Firecooke is an extension for Firebug and is written by Jan Odvarko, who is also a full time contributor to Firebug. Among other things it allows you to:

  • Browse and inspect cookies
  • Add, edit or delete cookies
  • Log cookie events


Screenshot taken from http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firecookie/.

I love the way it plugs into Firebug and it provides all the functionality I needed (plus a bit more). For more information about Firecookie check out its homepage.

Incidentally working with cookies in JavaScript is fairly easy. For a good overview take a look at the articles by PPK over at QuirksMode and by Nicholas C. Zakas, or use a JavaScript library such as YUI or jQuery.

References

  1. http://mashable.com/2008/11/11/firefox-extensions-for-managing-cookies/
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