Cookies
From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Firefox stores cookies in two files, cookies.txt
and cookperm.txt
(called hostperm.1
in newer versions of Firefox). Both of these files are in your profile folder.
File | Description |
---|---|
cookies.txt |
Holds all of your cookies, including login information, session data, and preferences. |
cookperm.txt hostperm.1 |
Holds preferences about which sites you allow or prohibit to set cookies, to display images, and to create popup windows. |
Why can't Firefox use Internet Explorer's cookies?
Firefox stores all cookies in one single, flat file; Internet Explorer stores each cookie in a separate file in the cookies folder. Basic Firefox lacks the code to parse IE's data structure.
However, you can still import your Internet Explorer cookies into Firefox.