IECookiesView -- Easily View, Delete and Modify IE Cookies
IE 6 has a way to view and delete cookies, but it is very primitive compared to what can be done in current versions of Firefox and Opera. With any luck IE 7 will bring some much needed improvement to this area. However, even if it does, I doubt it will be as nice as IECookiesView from Nirsoft. IECookiesView is a tiny program that requires no install, but as a nice interface and a lot of powerful features. Here's what the Nirsoft web site says:
IECookiesView is a small utility that displays the details of all cookies that Internet Explorer stores on your computer.
In addition, It allows you to do the following actions:
- Sort the cookies list by any column you want, by clicking the column header. A second click sorts the column in descending order.
- Find a cookie in the list by specifying the name of the Web site.
- Select and delete the unwanted cookies.
- Save the cookies to a readable text file.
- Copy cookie information into the clipboard.
- Automatically refresh the cookies list when a Web site sends you a cookie.
- Display the cookies of other users and from other computers.
- Open the IECookiesView utility directly from Internet Explorer toolbar.
- Change the content of a cookie!
- Export your cookies to Netscape/Mozilla cookies file.
- Block specific Web sites from using cookies through the cookies blocking mechanism of Internet Explorer 6.0.
If you use IE6, IECookiesView is a "must have" tool for your utility toolbox. It's free, so go get yourself a copy. While cookies aren't usually the huge security risk some make them out to be, the ability to rid yourself of cookies you don't want, such as those advertising cookies that allow your movement to be tracked among sites in an advertising network, is very nice.
Rating: 5.0
Operating System: Windows with IE6
License: Freeware
Price: Freeware
Version: 1.70
Web Site: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iecookies.html
[tags]Windows, Internet Explorer, Cookies, IECookieView, IE Security[/tags]
