EditThisCookie Is Gone — Now What?

In late 2024, EditThisCookie — the most popular cookie editor for Chrome with millions of users — was removed from the Chrome Web Store. The reason: it never migrated to Manifest V3.

Overnight, millions of developers and testers lost their go-to cookie management tool. I saw an opportunity and built CookieJar — a modern, MV3-native cookie editor with features EditThisCookie never had.

What CookieJar Does Differently

1. Automatic Cookie Classification

EditThisCookie showed you a flat list of cookies. CookieJar automatically classifies every cookie into 6 categories:

Essential — Session tokens, CSRF tokens, auth cookies

Functional — Language preferences, UI settings

Analytics — Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Hotjar trackers

Advertising — Facebook Pixel, Google Ads, retargeting cookies

Social — Social media widgets, share buttons

Unknown — Unclassified cookies

Classification uses a combination of:

Pattern matching on cookie names (e.g., _ga → Analytics)

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