Wouldn't it be useful to many users to be able to select and protect a few known cookes (e.g., for banking, subscriptions, etc.) then delete all the rest?
Some cookies are necessary in order to manage material on banking sites, subscription sites, etc. It seems to me that enabling some way to scroll through the cookie list, marking those one wants to keep, would be useful -- then one could periodically blast all the other detrius away with the "Remove all cookies" function. Perhaps in a future release?
Opaite Mbohovái (5)
There are add-ons that enhance the options for cookie handling in Firefox, for example:
Would this article help:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/enabling+and+disabling+cookies
The problem I see with using the "Accept cookies from site" method is that, if I understand it correctly, "exceptions" are those sites that one does not wish to have install cookies. What would appear to be more useful is to be able to accept cookies from known sites and not from all the others one visits in the process of, for example, researching a topic across the web.
Aha! I hadn't thought of add-ons. After reading the review, I'll test Cookie Monster. Thank you.
Exceptions can work both ways. If you disable (block) all cookies then you can set an allow exceptions for cookies that you want to keep. If you keep cookies then you set set a block exception. You can see the permissions for the current server on Tools > Page Info > Permissions
If you use Delete browsing, search and download history on Firefox then you remove all stored cookies, also the ones that are an allow exception.