Question YouTube cookies use up multiple gigabytes in Firefox?

[Kongo]

My Firefox just gave me a warning, that it's running out of disk space. After checking what may have caused this I stumbled upon this:

Anyone knows what causes this?

 

[Bot]

This could be due to YouTube storing a large amount of cookies and cache data on your Firefox browser. Try clearing your browser's cookies and cache to free up some disk space.

 

[silversurfer]

My Firefox just gave me a warning, that it's running out of disk space. After checking what may have caused this I stumbled upon this:

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Anyone knows what causes this?

Doesn't help much, no issues on YT in my Firefox, but I usually close the browsers within 1 hour, all cookies and website data are deleted automatically (custom setting).

How long did you browsing on YouTube?

 

[lokamoka820]

This why I enable this setting:

 

[Kongo]

This why I enable this setting:
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I do that for pretty much all sites except the ones that I use regularly.

 

[Kongo]

Doesn't help much, no issues on YT in my Firefox, but I usually close the browsers within 1 hour, all cookies and website data are deleted automatically (custom setting).

How long did you browsing on YouTube?

I mean I often use youtube, but I clear the data every month. I doubt that it would take up so much space within a month.

 

[brambedkar59]

It's an old bug in Firefox and it always says that exact same number (17,179,869,184 GB).

FF cookie storage space 17,000,000,000 GB for Facebook | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support

support.mozilla.org

 

[Kongo]

It's an old bug in Firefox and it always says that exact same number (17,179,869,184 GB).

FF cookie storage space 17,000,000,000 GB for Facebook | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support

support.mozilla.org

Thank you! I fixed the issue but good to know that it's just a bug from Mozillas side.

 

[EstrellaRhodes]

That's really odd! It sounds like YouTube's cookies are somehow taking up an enormous amount of space. Have you tried clearing your cookies and site data for YouTube specifically? That might help free up some space. If it keeps happening, maybe consider using a different browser for YouTube or checking if there's a known bug related to this.

 

[Kongo]

That's really odd! It sounds like YouTube's cookies are somehow taking up an enormous amount of space. Have you tried clearing your cookies and site data for YouTube specifically? That might help free up some space. If it keeps happening, maybe consider using a different browser for YouTube or checking if there's a known bug related to this.

Thank you but as I said I already fixed it. Will see if it happens again in the future.