Cookie AutoDelete – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-US)
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Download Cookie AutoDelete for Firefox. Control your cookies! This WebExtension is inspired by Self Destructing Cookies. When a tab closes, any cookies not being used are automatically deleted. Keep the ones you trust (forever/until restart) while deleting the rest. Containers Supported

In my desktop Firefox I use Cookie Autodelete to keep a whitelist of sites whose cookies won’t be deleted. All other cookies are deleted as soon as all tabs for a particular site are closed.

Android’s Firefox, from what I gather, only give you two choices: delete all cookies upon quitting (not tab closing), or save them across sessions.

Unfortunately the extension above does not work on Firefox Android, and I haven’t found any other alternatives.

Do you know of any alternatives or other solutions, to get a behaviour similar to the desktop one? (And also: how come that extension is not supported on Firefox on Android?)

Cheers!

    • auth@lemmy.ml
      3·
      11 months ago

      I thought that fennec was no longer developed… I liked it much more than fennix

      • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        fennec, confusingly, was too different things

        fennec, the codename for firefox android before it was codenamed fenix, is no longer developed. you’re right

        fennec, the floss soft fork of firefox android, is still being developed. it’s available on fdroid, and based on fenix (modern firefox android)

        • auth@lemmy.ml
          2·
          11 months ago

          I wish the fork would not have chosen the same name as a previous engine…

          • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            to be fair; at the point they name it fennec, it was a pretty sensible name. when mozilla then changed the codename they could either keep name recognition or match upstream, and they chose the former

            it’s a dumb name now, but i think they made the right choice at every juncture

      • darcmage@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Looking at the commits, I see mozilla devs working on it. The release schedule has been mirroring the official firefox releases for as long as I can remember.

    • stravanasuOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      also @[email protected] thank you! I had no idea about this possibility and these Firefox forks. Looks a little complicated but I’ll try it. From what I gather, Firefox plans to bring back full extension support in the future?

      • Recreational Placebos@midwest.socialEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        I feel like it’s been around the corner for years now. I just gave up waiting and switched to fennec on fdroid (which is just Firefox with telemetry removed and a few nightly features enabled, more or less.)

        • stravanasuOPEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Thank you. So many people speaking about Fennec, and I had never heard of it!

      • darcmage@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        They most likely will but that’s something I’ve been hearing about for years.

  • BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.comEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    FIY, people say you need Nightly Firefox for Android to install third-party add-ons using the collection method but you can do it on Firefox Beta too.

  • Recreational Placebos@midwest.socialEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    I use cookie autodelete on Android, you might need to use nightly or fennec for full extension support. (And then you have to use extension “collections” for some stupid reason, but it does work)