For those of you who haven’t seen this in the news lately, there is a new kid in web-development-tools town. A new extension for Firebug called Firecookie that allows you to Create, Read, Update, and Delete your stored cookies for the site you are viewing. I know there are other tools out there but even at version 0.0.4 I think that this one is one to watch.

Features

Firecookie adds a new tab to Firebug with a list of cookies for the current site. You can go to Tools > Show All Cookies… for a window allowing you to search all of your cookies and view their values. Right-click on a cookie and select Edit Cookie to get a dialog to edit the cookie. You can log all cookie changes to the console by turning on Options > Show logs in console. Finally, you can copy and paste cookies by right-clicking as well.

Other things I’d like to see in this extension

There are a couple bits I think would improve the UX of this extension:

• The Show All Cookies… dialog should allow you to edit cookies
• Cookie names should become links on mouseover and the cursor should change to a pointer. It would just be a nice visual aid for the user
• Console entries for cookies should also link to their respective cookies in the Cookie tab

Conclusion

I am excited about what the future holds for this extension. I hope that this opens the door for more Firebug extensions. Go get Firecookie and try it out!
You also might be interested in 10 things you didn’t know about Firebug.