[Tutor] Advice on working with Firefox's cookies.sqlite

[Jim]

On 6/27/20 5:41 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 27/06/2020 20:02, Jim wrote:
> 
>> When I get a chance I'll try shutting down just the normal one and see
>> if that helps.
> 
> I'll be surprised. All instances of firefox will use the same
> cookie database. If it gets deleted they will just regenerate
> it using the in-memory cache. They are using sqlite as a
> persistence mechanism not a database. Its table structures
> are used just as a useful data format and to provide basic
> multi-session access/locking control.
> 
> But so long as there is a single instance running you probably
> can't even guarantee that changes made by the other instances
> (let alone any external program) will stick.
> 

You're probably right. Just thinking, with no real basis to do so, that 
private mode does not retain cookies so maybe there is no reason for it 
to use cookies.sqlite-wal.

Anyway I've come this far, the script is written and works until Firefox 
does it's thing, so I might as well try one last time.

Thanks,  Jim