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muriel_volestrangler

(106,588 posts)
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 05:03 PM Jul 2025

Is there a way in the Edge browser to retain my current cookies from a small list, but delete the huge bulk of others?

I have built up, through carelessness, a vast list of cookies - so big that just getting a list of them seriously degrades performance, so that deleting each unwanted site individually is not feasible. I'd like to allow about 30 sites to set cookies - and to allow them to keep the current cookies they have set, so I don't have to log back in to them, reset preferences etc.; and delete the thousands of other sites.

Is there a way to do this? Everything I've found so far implies I have to say "delete all cookies", and then build the cookies from allowed sites back up again, which may involved much tedious logging in etc.

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Is there a way in the Edge browser to retain my current cookies from a small list, but delete the huge bulk of others? (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 OP
Edge cookie manager Nigrum Cattus Jul 2025 #1
Are you saying you know it can do exactly what I've described, even with a huge list of cookies? muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 #2
there are ways to set sites u are ok with putting cookies on your device. not sure on edge nt msongs Jul 2025 #3
I use Ccleaner. Ptah Jul 2025 #4

muriel_volestrangler

(106,588 posts)
2. Are you saying you know it can do exactly what I've described, even with a huge list of cookies?
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 05:14 PM
Jul 2025

Remember that the pages to handle cookies that Edge itself provides are overwhelmed by the amount of cookies I have (eg it takes over a minute to put a list of them on screen - and if I select one site to delete its cookies, that takes over a minute to select, and then over a minute to delete). Does this editor allow me to "select all", then search for the ones I want to keep, then unselect them, then delete the remainder?

Thanks for your answer, anyway, whether it's just hopeful, or definite.

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