What Can You Do With a Cookie Editor?
Whether you like them or not, cookies appear in your browser unless you disable cookie tracking. Some Internet users filter their unwanted cookies while other Web surfers delete them completely. You also have the ability to edit the values stored in a cookie using browsers that support cookie deletion or third-party add-ons.
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Browser Cookies
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Cookies are nothing more than text strings residing in a file on your hard drive. If a website wishes to store information about your visit, it creates a cookie containing that information and stores it in your browser's cookie file. Different browsers store these files in different locations. They are usually in a browser settings folder located in your user profile directory. This ensures that other computer users cannot find that file and view or update it.
Editing Cookies
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There is no limit to the type of data a website might store in a cookie. Login cookies, for example, help you log in to sites automatically by storing your ID and password in a cookie on your hard drive. Sites also often store session ID data that help Web servers remember your Internet session ID. If you would like to change any of this cookie information, you can simply find your cookie file, open it in Notepad and edit it. A faster way to do this is to use a cookie editor.
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Cookie Editors
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Web browsers allow you to delete cookies, and some, such as Opera, allow you to edit them. To use Opera's cookie editor, press "Ctrl" and "F12," and then click "Manage Cookies" to view your cookies. Selecting a cookie and clicking "Edit" displays the editor. Other browsers, such as Firefox, provide third-party add-ons that help you change cookie values quickly. The Firefox Add N Edit Cookies add-on, for example, lets you edit cookie values and session data. If you use Google Chrome, the Edit This Cookie extension helps you edit and block cookies.
Interesting Facts
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Even though websites put cookies on your hard drive, they cannot delete them. Sites can only edit cookies, just as you might, using a cookie editor or word processor. Websites, can, however, make cookies expire by changing their expiration dates.
Your Adobe Flash player does not store its cookies where you might think they would be. Flash has its own cookie file that does not disappear when you use your browser's delete function. You can delete these cookies by visiting Adobe's Flash Player Help site.
When editing some cookies, such as those that store passwords, you may see scrambled data in one or more cookie fields. You can still edit the data, but unless you know what it means, you may want to update other fields you understand instead.
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