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Cookies from non-whitelisted sites are left behind

The add-on reports cookies deleted, but cookies from non-whitelisted sites remain after restart, manual clean, or the time limit, so its main job fails.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

29 public reports · first reported 7 August 2019 · last reported 25 January 2026

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Many Firefox users say the cookie cleaner stopped removing cookies from sites they did not whitelist.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 29 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.