Viewing cookies in IE

There are times during development when you wish to see the cookies of a particular site, but do not know how to view them. You can use this simple solution to view cookies.

Drag this link to the Bookmarks toolbar on firefox. (Enable the toolbar by: View -> Toolbars -> Bookmarks Toolbar)
Show Cookies

On IE, right click on link, "Add to Favorites", Create In -> "Links". (Enable toolbar via Tools -> Toolbars -> Links)

Once you have this link on the toolbar, you can navigate to any site and click it to see the cookies.

Of course there are plenty of cookie viewing techniques and tools around, but this is a very easy and handy way of checking cookies quickly.

The html of the link above looks like this:
<a href="javascript:alert(document.cookie)">Show Cookies</a>

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