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No cookie names are displayed when I press the 'Show Cookies' button anymore, which stops me from manually deleting cookies selectively.

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When I open the Cookies window by pressing the 'Show Cookies' button in Options|Privacy the sub-window displays no Cookie names just a series of arrows as if for different sub-directories. This has been so for several months yet I have changed no cookie settings and have the 'Accept Cookies from sites' and 'Accept third-party cookies' boxes ticked. This means I cannot manually control/delete cookies.

When I open the Cookies window by pressing the 'Show Cookies' button in Options|Privacy the sub-window displays no Cookie names just a series of arrows as if for different sub-directories. This has been so for several months yet I have changed no cookie settings and have the 'Accept Cookies from sites' and 'Accept third-party cookies' boxes ticked. This means I cannot manually control/delete cookies.

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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

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Instructions in the second link took me through the possible solutions thanks and it came down to a problem with the localstore.rdf rather than any hardware acceleration, themes or extensions. All resolved now - many thanks.