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I cannot clear "ad" cookies (ie, adbrite.com, adadvisor.com, etc.) from my cookies. I've tried everything except for uninstalling/re-installing both Firefox and AdBlock Plus.

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nekoburo
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Installed 9.0.1 today. Rechecked my preferences, just to make sure, and found a host of cookies that I can't delete, nor will they delete upon exit, as I have, and have had, checked off in the Preferences pane. Have AdBlock Plus activated. Have these sites listed as blocked. Have Privacy Browsing and No Third Party Cookies are accepted.

Installed 9.0.1 today. Rechecked my preferences, just to make sure, and found a host of cookies that I can't delete, nor will they delete upon exit, as I have, and have had, checked off in the Preferences pane. Have AdBlock Plus activated. Have these sites listed as blocked. Have Privacy Browsing and No Third Party Cookies are accepted.

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I think I solved my issue. I enabled Safe Mode, then enabled each add-on, one at a time, restarting FF between each enable. I did not have the TACO add-on. I hope this is the end. Thank you for your reply. I appreciate it.

Little puzzle, I did not think this query had been posted, as I couldn't find it to edit afterwords, it did not show up under my contributions or a manual search through each recent post. Today, there are all of the posts, of course, with the same problem. So, I truly thank Mozilla for their patience and all the people who took the time to read this and the other two posts. I apologize for the repeated posts. I really didn't think they had been posted because I couldn't find them afterwords to edit with my attempts at fixing this issue.

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alan_r
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Are you sure you don't have an extension that has a "block" list of cookies?

nekoburo
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I think I solved my issue. I enabled Safe Mode, then enabled each add-on, one at a time, restarting FF between each enable. I did not have the TACO add-on. I hope this is the end. Thank you for your reply. I appreciate it.

Little puzzle, I did not think this query had been posted, as I couldn't find it to edit afterwords, it did not show up under my contributions or a manual search through each recent post. Today, there are all of the posts, of course, with the same problem. So, I truly thank Mozilla for their patience and all the people who took the time to read this and the other two posts. I apologize for the repeated posts. I really didn't think they had been posted because I couldn't find them afterwords to edit with my attempts at fixing this issue.

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