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cookie control panel missing from FF 24

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I do know how to view or clear all cookes; and how to block, or permit cookies from particular sites; things I do often. At least, I DID know how until installing FF 24. With this upgrade, going to FF menu Preferences/Privacy/ gives me a dialog box with sections for Tracking, History, and Location Bar settings. No View Cookies button to open the cookie view window and control panel.

I have tried all the preference tabs from General to Advanced with no joy. Is there now another way to get to the controls? I need access to my black list so I can allow google.com, for example, for those few sites who require it and then black list it again for those who don't.

I do know how to view or clear all cookes; and how to block, or permit cookies from particular sites; things I do often. At least, I DID know how until installing FF 24. With this upgrade, going to FF menu Preferences/Privacy/ gives me a dialog box with sections for Tracking, History, and Location Bar settings. No View Cookies button to open the cookie view window and control panel. I have tried all the preference tabs from General to Advanced with no joy. Is there now another way to get to the controls? I need access to my black list so I can allow google.com, for example, for those few sites who require it and then black list it again for those who don't.

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hello ClearSky, select "use custom settings for histroy" in the privacy panel, then the more fine grained cookie settings will appear: Settings for privacy, browsing history and do-not-track

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Thank you, Philipp,

That worked as you described. I am always careful to search earlier questions before posting one of my own and in none of the help articles or forum posts did I find any reference to the fact that a particular History setting was required in order to get to the cookie settings. All of the the articles begin by telling you to open the Cookie Control Panel. Tough if you can't see it!

Evidently the default FF setting hides the cookie options which is what made mine appear to disappear after an upgrade. Not a good thing. I hope my post and your reply will help others .

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The "Use custom settings for history" selection allows to see the current history and cookie settings, but selecting this doesn't make any changes to history and cookie settings.
Firefox shows "Use custom settings for history" as an indication that at least one of the history and cookie settings is not the default to make you aware that changes were made.
If all History settings are default then the custom settings are hidden and you see "Firefox will: (Never) Remember History" (Never Remember History implicates that Private Browsing mode is active).