How can you export cookies from the Tor Browser Bundle?

Question

Cookies don't show up in Privacy & Security Preferences when you click Manage Data (it shows no cookies even when there are cookies), which appears to be inherited from Firefox's Private Browsing mode.

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As a temporary fix I tried using the extension cookies.txt, but that didn't work for me, clicking it does nothing.

I tried running its source code directly (GitHub) in Web Developer > Scratchpad, but this didn't work either.

function saveCookies(cookies) {
  var header = [
    '# Netscape HTTP Cookie File\n',
    '# https://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html\n',
    '# This is a generated file! Do not edit.\n\n'
  ];
  var body = cookies.map(formatCookie)
  var blob = new Blob(header.concat(body), {type: 'text/plain'});
  var objectURL = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
  browser.downloads.download({url: objectURL, filename: 'cookies.txt',
    saveAs: true, conflictAction: 'overwrite'});
}

function handleClick() {
  var gettingAll = browser.cookies.getAll({});
  gettingAll.then(saveCookies);
}

handleClick()

It gave this exception, but this could be my fault since I don't know what I'm doing.

/*
Exception: ReferenceError: browser is not defined
handleClick@Scratchpad/1:24:7
@Scratchpad/1:28:1
*/

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I also tried looking inside the file Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default/cookies.sqlite while the broswer was open, but the moz_cookies column appeared to be empty.

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Is there some way to export the cookies from the Tor Browser Bundle or even view them at all?

Answer 1

You can control cookie preferences from about:config.

Maybe this link will help: About Config Preferences

Answer 2

This is not the best solution since it requires you to install an add-on, but it works at least. The Cookies Manager does let you see and import/export your cookies.