creating_a_cookie_log.rst (2373B)
1 Creating a cookie log 2 ===================== 3 4 Creating a cookie log is often necessary to troubleshoot problems with 5 Firefox's cookie handling. If you are reading this, you have probably 6 been directed here from a bug report. Please follow the instructions 7 below to run Firefox with cookie logging enabled. 8 9 .. _Enabling_Cookie_Logging: 10 11 Enabling Cookie Logging 12 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 13 14 Windows 15 ^^^^^^^ 16 17 Open a command prompt (this is under Programs or Programs/Accessories in 18 normal installations of Windows). 19 20 #. Change to your Firefox directory (usually C:\Program Files\Mozilla 21 Firefox) 22 #. Type "set NSPR_LOG_FILE=C:\temp\cookie-log.txt", enter 23 #. Type "set NSPR_LOG_MODULES=cookie:4" and press Enter 24 #. Run Firefox by typing "firefox.exe" and pressing Enter. 25 26 Linux 27 ^^^^^ 28 29 Start a command shell (these instructions are for bash, if you use 30 something else, you probably know how to modify these instructions 31 already). 32 33 #. Change to the installation directory for Firefox. 34 #. Type "export NSPR_LOG_FILE=~/cookie-log.txt" and press Enter. 35 #. Type "export NSPR_LOG_MODULES=cookie:4" and press Enter. 36 #. Run Firefox by typing "./firefox" and pressing Enter 37 38 macOS 39 ^^^^^ 40 41 Open Terminal.app, which is located in the /Applications/Utilities 42 folder (these instructions are for bash, the default shell in macOS 43 10.3 and higher; if you use something else, you probably know how to 44 modify these instructions already). 45 46 #. Change to the installation directory for Firefox, e.g. type "cd 47 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS" and press Return. 48 #. Type "export NSPR_LOG_FILE=~/Desktop/cookie-log.txt" and press 49 Return. 50 #. Type "export NSPR_LOG_MODULES=cookie:4" and press Return. 51 #. Run Firefox by typing "./firefox" and pressing Return (note that 52 Firefox will launch behind windows for other applications). 53 54 Creating the Log 55 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 56 57 Now that you have Firefox running with logging enabled, please try to 58 replicate the bug using the steps to reproduce from the bug report. Once 59 you have reproduced the bug, shut down Firefox. Close out of the command 60 prompt/shell/Terminal, and then launch Firefox normally. Finally, attach 61 the cookie-log.txt file to the bug where it was requested (by clicking 62 on Create New Attachment). It should be in C:\temp on Windows, your home 63 directory on Linux, or the Desktop on Mac OS X. 64 65 Thanks for helping us make Firefox better!