Cocoa Cookies Editor's Review

Cocoa Cookies is a cookie previewer and manager.

The application works with the browsers that are based on WebKit. This means that the program can manage either cookies that are stored after visiting a Website with the built in Safari, or with Shiira for example.

It also includes support for Dashboard and NetNewsWire because all of these applications use the same cookie repository. It can work with other applications that are not specified by the producer, such as SunriseBrowser. Cocoa Cookies doesn't work with all the WebKit browsers. For example it doesn't work with OmniWeb which uses its own repository for the cookies.

The interface of Cocoa Cookies is very simple. The cookies are automatically grouped by domain. You can see the number of cookies for each domain, and you can also see their path, expiring date, its content, or whether the cookie is secured or not.

The cleanup can be made in the following ways: by selecting which cookies you would like to delete: in this case you can use the 'Remove' button. If you would like to do a mass delete, then you can pick which cookies the program shouldn't delete, and use the 'Remove All' button.

Cocoa Cookies also provides you a 'search-as-you-type' engine in order to find certain cookies that contain the search query. This functionality is very useful if you have hundreds of cookies and you wouldn't like to erase all of them.

Pluses: it can work with cookies from all WebKit browsers, it provides a clean and well designed interface, is very fast.

Drawbacks / flaws: it doesn't have support for all the browsers from the Mac OS X platform. For example, if you use Opera or Firefox, then Cocoa Cookies won't see the cookies that are stored by these browsers.

In conclusion: it is a pretty good cookie manager. It is also a pretty usable application because it integrates the search engine and the mass deletion functionality.

version reviewed: 0.9