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Firecookie is a an extension for Firebug that makes possible to view and manage cookies in your browser. Apart from all the other cookie managers and viewers available as Firefox extensions, this one is made as an extension for Firebug, so web developer has the functionality accessible within familiar Firebug's UI.

Once Firecookie is successfully installed you should see a new tab within Firebug's bar called simply Cookies. This tab displays a list of all cookies associated with domain of the currently displayed page. Each entry in the list displays basic information about a cookie (name, value, domain, path, expire date, etc.).

Inspect Cookies
Every cookie in the list is expandable. This is useful especially when the cookie value is long and can't be fully displayed directly. If you are looking for a specific cookie by name, use Firebug's search box and write down it's name. The list is dynamically filtered as you type in the box.

Cookie Permissions
You can also manage cookie permissions for the current site directly from the Firebug's toolbar. The permission button displays the current status as a label and it's automatically updated if the permission is changed (e.g. from the Firefox options dialog).

Cookie Events
If you want to see when something happens to a cookie, use Firebug's Console tab. Firecookie creates a log entry every time when a cookie is created, changed, deleted or rejected. This can be switched off in Cookie->Options menu.

Cookie Expire Time
Cookie expire time is displayed using local timezone and current Firefox locale. It's easy to figure out the actual value. It's also possible to change the current value using a popup calendar and time picker.
Both calendar and time-picker has been introduced in Firefox 3.

Export Cookies
Use Cookies menu to create new and remove an existing cookies. The same menu can be also used to export all cookies in the browser or only those that are associated with the current page into cookies.txt file in standard text format (every cookie + info takes one line).