Cookie-Editor

Cookies are “crumbles” forwarded to your web browser by the websites you visit, so as to remember information about you and load the content faster next time you land on that particular page.

However, since we are talking about sharing details about browsing habits and the software you use, the subject of privacy protection is brought into the light. Clearing your browsing data and managing third-party cookies from time to time is recommended, as it ensures that your data stays private.

More control over cookies in your browser is offered to you by Cookie-Editor, a simple extension that allows quick cookie management in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

Thanks to this open-source browser extension, you get much more control over the cookies that end up in your browser. Once installed, the add-on's icon is placed right next to the address bar, allowing one-click access to cookie management tools.

Clicking on it reveals a pop-up window that displays all the cookies on the currently visited page, with additional options to modify existing cookies by changing their name, value, domain, path and expiration date. There are options to delete all the cookies with the click of a button and even create new cookies with custom names and values. Importing and exporting cookies is also possible using the JSON or Netscape format.

It’s not all about security when it comes to the usability of this extension for Chrome or Edge. It surely comes in handy to web developers, allowing them to test a website and manage cookie collection on their own web project. SEO specialists could also benefit from being able to manually manage cookies with this add-on.

Available on all the major web browsers, the Cookie-Editor extension allows you to manage the browser’s cookies on your own. While regular users might find it enough to have the browser data cleaned up once in a while, more advanced users will surely appreciate the extended control over their browser’s cookie collection mechanism.