Comments on: How to recover a corrupted Firefox cookies.sqlite

By: Bryan Peters

Bryan Peters — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:33:35 +0000

You’re a cookie lifesaver! Thanks for breaking down the steps – I had about 3k entries that I thought were lost.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:13:47 +0000

FWIW, I took it as a joke. I’m sure the “Orange people” though are stoked by my endorsement.

By: Dan G. Switzer, II

Dan G. Switzer, II — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:46:48 +0000

I seriously hope Marvin is being sarcastic. I can’t even fathom how someone could take that statement to be racist.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:13:19 +0000

“Orange is my favorite color”

As a black man, I find this statement to be very offensive.

By: barca26

barca26 — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:07:02 +0000

Thank You!

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By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:20:08 +0000

Just wanted to thank you for this article – it saved me from going nuts this week!

By: brian

brian — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:21:29 +0000

@John – all possible, sounds like there are variants on this issue. The good news is that Mozilla released an update to Firefox awhile back that specifically addressed this issue. Since upgrading I haven’t had it happen again.

By: John Machin

John Machin — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:26:41 +0000

A few problems here:
(1) “select count(*) from table_name” may fail without producing a count
(2) select * from table_name; will typically stop at the FIRST corruption leaving only a fraction of rows recovered e.g. 74 out of 800+ in a cookies.sqlite that I have. The 800+ rows are easily recoverable if you ignore the SQLite library and get doen to the metal.
(3) sqlitebrowser doesn’t put out an error message if the db is corrupt; it just silently returns the 74 cookies … in another case of a corrupt file it produced rubbish, again silently.

By: Dan G. Switzer, II

Dan G. Switzer, II — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:51:51 +0000

On a sort of related note, if you don’t want to download the binary and go the pure command line route, there’s an excellent GUI for SQLlite at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/

What I like is there’s no install. Just extract and run. I use it quite a bit when I need to edit data in a SQLlite database.