709597 - I find no "remove all cookies" option anywhere (under Tools/CM/M stored cookies or edit/pref...) despite help documentation.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 416234

(SeaMonkey :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20111121 Firefox/8.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.5
Build ID: 20111121045514

Steps to reproduce:

I took over an hour to delete them all by domain.  Then I set my preferences to block all cookies.



Expected results:

There should have been an option to "remove all cookies", or no mention of it in the help files.  The right-click option to "forget about this domain" did not tell me whether the cookies would be deleted.  Would multiple selections in the domain tree allow multiple deletions of cookies?

Comment 1

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

First of all sorry, but Help is not up-to-date, especially in this regard.

The current "official" way to delete all cookies is to use Tools/Clear Private Data, select only Cookies, then click Clear Private Data Now. Eventually this is what Help should point you at (it just needs someone to update the docs; there's already a bug about that: see below).

As far as the Data Manager is concerned, there is bug 597993 which suggests to add an option to the pane that appears if you select the "*" entry, trigger the context menu for it (using the right mouse button) and select "Forget Global Data". That's not exactly obvious either (especially since the "*" entry is hidden when "Cookies only" is selected from the drop-down in the top left corner), so I'd call that suboptimal (to say the least) if it was implemented exactly like that.

Marking as duplicate of bug 416234, though bug 599097 is partly affected, too.