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The cookies were in the firefox (roaming) profile, in the file webappstore.sqlite A text search of this file did not find them, even when I knew they were in the file (by moving bunches of files in and out of the profile folder, i was able to narrow it down to that file). Opening the file in wordpad shows some plain text and some binary stuff. The cookies must be encoded in binary somehow since the domain names were not found in plain text in the file, even with the search in wordpad (or with the DOS shell command findstr) I moved the file out of the profile and firefox seems to run fine without it. I was half expecting my plugins to lose their config information, but this does not seem to have happened (as least not the ones ive looked at) I think this means that they are DOM storage not true cookies Last night I installed a plugin that allows clearing of DOM storage, when the file was in the profile folder (i.e. active) , runnning this plugin did not clear the mystery "cookies" They are gone now though along with the rest of whatever was in that file..... Problem solved (unless anything important was in that file but i think it will be fine)

interesting though that CCleaner can find them , and claim to be cleaning them, but not be..... i guess that still does count as a bug? other than this issue CCleaner has been an awesome program, btw

i have a few ideas now. i dont have time atm but later ill try them most of the list is from about 2 years ago (and ones i know ive browsed more recently are generic like google), im guessing that maybe an older version of FF uses different files , and its left a file in the profile folder , with the cookies in it, and they are sitting there ignored by everything except CCleaner if i do a global string search inside every file in the profile folder, that should find them (as long as they are in plain text but most of the FF stuff is i think , or at least .sqlite which is mosly plain text)

PPS OOOOOOOHHH a big big clue in a previous post, i said i renamed the FF profile thinking that would stop CCleaner from looking in it. it did stop FF from starting so i thought that would be enough. BUT then i just thought, it was still left in the same directory, so maybe CCleaner still looked in it so just then i moved it to the desktop (both the local and the roaming ones)..... and now there are only three cookies on the list and thost 3 are probably from what im browsing in right now in IE, they are just two from google and one from piriform i still want to track this down but the problem cookies are DEFINITELY somewhere in the profile of FF (and the main profile that i use all the time)

PS. a lot of the sites in the cookie list are very common ones...... so you would think everyone would have this problem if it was the sites that were responsible i just had an idea............. i do web dev so i have a lot of browsers installed...... maybe there is an older version of another browser that ive forgotten about , somewhere in c:\program files??? ill have a look for that.... Also, the big unremoveable list of cookies seems to reflect a "snapshot" of what i was looking at at some time in the past, perhaps all on the same day, or at least all within a short space of time

I made a screenshot image of about half of the list but I can't see a way to upload it without posting it as a URL on a website. but here are some from the list google.com.au addons.mozilla.org aolanswers.com affiilate-program.amazon.co.uk these were the first 4 of the finally displayed list in CCleaner, then i left the next few out for privacy. a few others were www.ask.com www.cyclingforums.com www.reviewcentre.com there are about 80 cookies on the full list. i noticed that when i click on the cookie control page in CCleaner, it takes about 0.5 to 1 seconds to generate the list of cookies, and it generates it in a different order to how it displays it (i.e. the first items to be displayed are later moved further down the list).. i thought this may be a clue. it was too fast for me to see the first few that came up (since it the first few are moved down in less than half a second) , but i managed to take a screenshot when there were only a few on the list, so i could see the first ones that it found these are mozillg.org 237572123.log.optimizely.com developer.mozilla.org google.com.au support.mozilla.org webdevwonders.com www.google.com.au all the mozilla ones also suggest its FF thats doing it . yes i have the flash player ticked in CCleaner. all the app ticks are ticked except for a few in thunderbird (eg the passwords). i also installed an add on clean flash cookies from firefox (and it said there were none) , and i went to the web page on macromedia that controls flash player cookies (and it said there were none). after reading that other post with opera and persistent storage, i thought maybe it was that but in firefox.... in FF they call this DOM storage ( i think its the same thing).... so i installed an app to clean that from firefox..... then i also went into the FF setting list (you have to do this manually in about:config), and turned off DOM objects completely but after all that .the list is still there in CCleaner...

thanks kroozer ive got opera but its an older version i dont use much, and it doesnt support persistent storage (its v9 and the earliest with ps is v10). just in case i deleted both opera folders in appdata local and roaming. (and before i deleted them i said there were no cookies but i deleted them anyway) i also tried everything else in that post including the IE clearing and the flash one (which i had tried already but i looked again).... so they are still there CCleaner seems to think the cookies belong to firefox (which is what i use most of the time) but i dont know if they really do. ive tried renaming my firefox profiles in both local and roaming and it didnt help, even though firefox wouldnt start (until i changed the names back), CCleaner still found the list of cookies as before

PS I looked in the registry too for CCleaner and they werent in there , at least not in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Piriform\CCleaner

Hi, This is totally driving me nuts..... No matter what I do I dont seem to be able to get rid of the list of cookies to either keep or delete. At first I thought that those cookies were not deleting properly, since every time I run CCleaner, it says "cookie deleted" on a large list of cookies, for firefox. Then, if I run CCleaner again, it still says cookies deleted and names them all. I thought they must not be deleting in firefox so I spent hours trying to figure how how to find them... with no luck. I even thought they must be flash cookies and did a whole lot of stuff to find and clear flash cookies.... it wasnt that. Finally I have thought that the list of cookies does not exist anywhere other than in CCleaner itself. When I go into the cookie menu, where you can either delete or keep them, they are all there, the exact ones I was having the problem with. But I can't figure out how to remove them from this list. There seems to be no way. Even renaming them just creates two cookies, one with the new name and then the old cookie domain name is regenerated as another cookie and pops up its ugly head in the other list, so now there are two cookies where there was once one. It seems possible to delete the new one (with a name like j that i made up) but not any of the original ones. I tried saving settings to an ini file, and edited the ini file as administrator. The list was there! So I deleted them all in the .ini. Then when I ran CCleaner, they were all back again!!!!!!!! Where on earth is this list being stored and how can I remove it???????