This package is used for retrieving cookies from your browsers.
Nowadays, browsers keeps many personal data including your login passwords or sessions of some websites, your browser history, etc. One of the usages of keyring is guarding the browser.
This package may prompt your login password for keyring to retrieve cookies from your browser. You should be very careful with the cookies and always know what you are doing.
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