I’ve enabled “Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed” but while all cookies gets deleted, some random site data does not. Are my settings wrong, is this a bug, and what even is that data?

Additional Info: I use RFP, want to keep browsing history and site settings. Thank you very much.

    • knightly [none/use any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Firefox stores cookies in a DB file called cookies.sqlite, i just cleared cookies on a fresh new Firefox profile and the file is 524.3kB. A text dump of the file has four lines of text that describe the structure of the cookie database and that’s it. No actual content.

  • HarriPotero@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 months ago

    Sounds like it’s localStorage. But I’d expect that to be covered by “site data” in that option.

    It’s a bit like cookies, but just for one site. Some think they can avoid cookie consent banners with localStorage.

    Firefox has a page on the topic.