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muriel_volestrangler

(104,089 posts) Tue Jul 8, 2025, 05:03 PM Jul 8

Is there a way in the Edge browser to retain my current cookies from a small list, but delete the huge bulk of others?

I have built up, through carelessness, a vast list of cookies - so big that just getting a list of them seriously degrades performance, so that deleting each unwanted site individually is not feasible. I'd like to allow about 30 sites to set cookies - and to allow them to keep the current cookies they have set, so I don't have to log back in to them, reset preferences etc.; and delete the thousands of other sites.

Is there a way to do this? Everything I've found so far implies I have to say "delete all cookies", and then build the cookies from allowed sites back up again, which may involved much tedious logging in etc.

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Is there a way in the Edge browser to retain my current cookies from a small list, but delete the huge bulk of others? (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jul 8 OP

Edge cookie manager Nigrum Cattus Jul 8 #1

Are you saying you know it can do exactly what I've described, even with a huge list of cookies? muriel_volestrangler Jul 8 #2

there are ways to set sites u are ok with putting cookies on your device. not sure on edge nt msongs Jul 8 #3

I use Ccleaner. Ptah Jul 8 #4

Nigrum Cattus

(729 posts)

1. Edge cookie manager

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 05:07 PM

Jul 8

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/cookieeditor/neaplmfkghagebokkhpjpoebhdledlfi

muriel_volestrangler

(104,089 posts)

2. Are you saying you know it can do exactly what I've described, even with a huge list of cookies?

Reply to Nigrum Cattus (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 05:14 PM

Jul 8

Remember that the pages to handle cookies that Edge itself provides are overwhelmed by the amount of cookies I have (eg it takes over a minute to put a list of them on screen - and if I select one site to delete its cookies, that takes over a minute to select, and then over a minute to delete). Does this editor allow me to "select all", then search for the ones I want to keep, then unselect them, then delete the remainder?

Thanks for your answer, anyway, whether it's just hopeful, or definite.

msongs

(71,790 posts)

3. there are ways to set sites u are ok with putting cookies on your device. not sure on edge nt

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 06:24 PM

Jul 8

Ptah

(33,820 posts)

4. I use Ccleaner.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 06:28 PM

Jul 8

https://www.ccleaner.com

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