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A Simple Question About Cookies
 

I have a cookies.txt file I was able to export from my old laptop, and I now plan on importing them to the new laptop. The cookies are all of the cookies from every site I visited, however I only want to import the paypal cookies. My question is, Can I edit the cookies.txt file and delete all of the websites that are not paypal or will editing a cookies.txt file cause me issues?

P.s. Im using firefox on windows. I feel like this is something I should have been know, however I've never had a reason to export and import cookies.

Re: A Simple Question About Cookies
 

Hmmm..... I usually just transfer everything from Firefox because I don't want to mess with anything.

Besides I have dedicated windows user accounts per account so no need to pick and choose for me.

Re: A Simple Question About Cookies
 

Not really worth just parsing out the cookies you want OP...in my opinion

Re: A Simple Question About Cookies
 

But can I do that if I wanted too, just by simply deleting the line? Will this damage the entire file? I have my reason just want to know if it works this way or not.

Re: A Simple Question About Cookies
 

With ccleaner you can delete certain cookies, so you can use that and only keep the cookies you want

But I usually transfer everything

Re: A Simple Question About Cookies
 

Like Roy3805 stated, you could

Re: A Simple Question About Cookies
 

I guess most of us don't do this.

So try it out and let us know how it goes.

Re: A Simple Question About Cookies
 

Seem to have worked for me, my issues was that

1. The cookies on the old PC was with a certain proxy that stopped working, opening the browser without a proxy I noticed the cookies was capturing and responding to me opening the browser "With my actually IP" so I did not want to transfer those cookies over to the new PC. Instead I wanted to only transfer the old cookies from certain sites like "PayPal, Payoneer, etc." But all is good now

Re: A Simple Question About Cookies
 

Then you can teach people in here if they ever wanna do something similar to what you are doing.