Cookies on Windows systems (Win7 for example) browser
Internet Explorer cookie data is located in: Xxx.txt file in%appdata%\microsoft\windows\cookies\ directory (there may be many. txt cookie files in it)
such as: C:\Users\yren9\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\0WQ6YROK.txt
In Internet Explorer, IE saves each site's cookies as a plain text file of XXX.txt (the number of files may be many, but the file size is small), while Firefox and Chrome store all cookies in a single file (larger file size), which is in the format of the SQLite3 database Thing
The cookie data for Firefox is located in the Xxx.default directory in the%appdata%\mozilla\firefox\profiles\ directory, the file named Cookies.sqlite.
such as: C:\Users\jay\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ji4grfex.default\cookies.sqlite
To view cookies in Firefox, you can select Tools > Options > Privacy > Show cookies.
The cookie data for Chrome is located in:%localappdata%\google\chrome\user data\default\ directory, a file named cookies.
such as: C:\Users\jay\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User data\default\cookies
Cookies on Linux systems (in Ubuntu 12.04 and rhel6.x for example) browser
The cookie path for Firefox is: $HOME the Cookie.sqlite file in the/.mozilla/firefox/xxxx.default/directory.
Where the cookie file is stored in the computer