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    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Feb 9 16:53:58 2026
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    Is it easy to steal/transfer a session cookie from one Firefox to
    another? :)
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Feb 9 20:31:35 2026
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    On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 16:53:58 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    Is it easy to steal/transfer a session cookie from one Firefox to
    another? :)

    Yes. They are just stored in an SQLite database.

    You can even extract them and use them in various alternative web
    clients, e.g. wget.
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  • From Share Link@image@invalid.invalid to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Feb 9 22:36:17 2026
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    On 09/02/2026 20:31, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 16:53:58 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    Is it easy to steal/transfer a session cookie from one Firefox to
    another? :)

    Yes. They are just stored in an SQLite database.

    You can even extract them and use them in various alternative web
    clients, e.g. wget.

    Can Import data work -- a feature of FF as shown in this wonderful image?

    <https://mega.nz/file/OlRyXLzT#rr0IMIbh_6Qv1e6NpD0FkQwFwTX-pFP94RXHvScnuRM>

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