Bleachbit

[SBfreak]

BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more.

Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster.


Homepage (http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net)
Download 0.7.3 beta (http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/news/test-bleachbit-073-beta)

[yoco]

Newest software on my machine, so far working fine!

[Grambo]

Better than CCleaner?

[Vation]

No it is good, but it is not better, if you want to pick one - pick Ccleaner.

Edit:
Ccleaner has a bit more functions

Bleachbit's advantage is it also Bleachbit for Linux version.
It looks rather raw, but some people find it attractive.

[Grambo]

Ok. Thanks.
Then I'll stick with CC which I like very much.

[SBfreak]

* Cleans Mozilla Thunderbird versions 2 and 3.
* Specific to Linux
o Clean Screenlets (thanks to MixCool).
* Specific to Windows
o Vacuums more of Firefox
o Fix process detection on Windows XP Home Edition which caused some cleaners (including Firefox) to fail.
o Hide the black "DOS box" on versions editions of Windows.


BleachBit 0.7.3 released | BleachBit (http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/news/bleachbit-073-released)

[reaper]

What vacuuming firefox? worth a try . I use mostly cc and tune up utilities

[SBfreak]

Vacuum Firefox databases for better performance, now with no restart - Mozilla Links (http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/08/vacuum-firefox-databases-for-better-performance-now-with-no-restart/)

[starforce]

BleachBit v0.7.4
2010-04-15

Latest changes:

BleachBit 0.7.4 released | BleachBit (http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/news/bleachbit-074-released)


Download:

Installer: Download BleachBit from SourceForge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bleachbit/files/bleachbit/BleachBit-0.7.4-Win32-install-full.exe/download)

ZIP: Download BleachBit from SourceForge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bleachbit/files/bleachbit/BleachBit-0.7.4-Win32-install-full.zip/download)

Portable: Download BleachBit from SourceForge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bleachbit/files/bleachbit/BleachBit-0.7.4-Win32-portable-full.zip/download)

[SBfreak]

BleachBit 0.8.0 beta

* Click Edit - Preferences. Then open the Whitelist tab. Click Remove when nothing is selected, and nothing should happen. Add files and folders, and notice they remain even when BleachBit is restarted. Remove entries, and notice they do not reappear when BleachBit is restarted. Then try to clean files that are whitelisted, and notice in both the preview and in the delete operation, these files are marked as "Skip" in the log window.
* Try the Farese translation.
* Linux
o Delete recent documents in GNOME 2.28 - 2.30 (e.g., Ubuntu Karmic Kaola and Lucid Lynx)
o Clean Thunderbird 3 as found on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04.
o Test under Fedora 13 and Lucid Lynx.
* Windows
o Test with various anti-virus programs: BitDefender, AVG, McAfee, Symantec Avast, etc.


Test BleachBit 0.8.0 beta | BleachBit (http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/news/test-bleachbit-080-beta)

[Vation]

Bleachbit 0.8.0 stable downloads:
Browse BleachBit Files on SourceForge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bleachbit/files/bleachbit/0.8.0/)


Please test the new BleachBit 0.8.1 beta 2 which with new features, bug fixes, and translation updates. In particular, please test:

In Firefox 3 delete DOM Storage.
In Google Chrome, clean Cookies.
In Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer, verify BleachBit deletes evercookies. Make sure in BleachBit to remove Flash Cookies (Local Shared Objects).
Clean VLC (VideoLAN Client)'s .ini configuration file.
Test Traditional Chinese translation.
Linux
Test under Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.
Test under Mandriva 2010.1.
When running as root (or administrator/sudo), open a web link such as the Help - Contents. It should not open a web browser.
Windows
Test Adobe Reader, Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Office, Opera, Safari, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, Yahoo Messenger. A change was made in how these find the %localappdata% directory, especially on Windows XP.
Delete Internet Explorer cookies: this now includes DOM Storage (HTML 5 cookies).
Delete Internet Explorer history: this now includes the last session.
Delete Silverlight cookies.
Vacuum Safari.
Clean Safari cookies: it should remove local storage (HTML 5 cookies).
Clean Safari history: it should remove the last session.
Clean memory dumps. To create a dump manually on Windows XP:
open regedit
goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\i8042prt\Parameters
create key called CrashOnCtrlScroll as dword
set value to 1
reboot windows
press right CTRL and then SCROLL LOCK twice


Bleachbit 0.8.1 beta downloads:
Browse BleachBit Files on SourceForge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bleachbit/files/bleachbit/0.8.1beta/)

[Vation]

Delete DOM Storage in Firefox 3, Google Chrome, and Opera.
Completely remove evercookie tracking, a system that "produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser." Clean evercookies in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari. Test it yoursel:create an evercookie on Samy Kamkar's evercookie site, clean it, and check on the same site it is gone.
Clean VLC (VideoLAN Client)'s .ini configuration file.
Add generic capability to clean most .ini configuration files through CleanerML. Because .ini is not standardized, additional work is needed to some kinds of .ini files.
Specific to Linux
Add .deb package for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.
When running as root, refuse to open web browser (such as for help contents) with root privileges.
Delete about 16MB more localizations as tested on Ubuntu 10.10.
Fix missing menu shortcut on Ubuntu 10 (LP#592051).
Specific to Windows
Delete DOM Storage in Internet Explorer and Safari.
Delete last session in Internet Explorer and Safari.
Delete Silverlight cookies.
Vacuum Safari.
Clean memory dumps.
Define %localappdata% environment variable on Windows XP, and use it for many existing cleaners. This may provide more reliable detection of files on certain Vista and Windows 7 systems.
Specific to web
Now you can follow BleachBit on Twitter.
dl:
Download | BleachBit (http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/download)

[anon]

Completely remove evercookie tracking, a system that "produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser." Clean evercookies in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari.

I may give this a spin until CCleaner catches up. :gsmile:

Even though browsing in private mode prevented any evercookies from being set here, I was a bit worried about their extremely persistent nature when Renk posted that thread.

[SBfreak]

Bleachbit 0.8.8 released


These are the changes since version 0.8.7:

In Firefox, delete more session restore
In Firefox, delete site-specific preferences
In Firefox, delete input history.
In Firefox, delete more URL history.
In Google Chrome and Chromium, properly delete HTML5 cookies without deleting preferences for extensions (LP#732567)
In Google Chrome and Chromium, delete the Databases.db files
In Google Chrome and Chromium, delete favicons (except those that have bookmarks)
In Google Chrome delete more history: the DNS prefetching host referral list
In Opera, delete session backup
Specific to Linux
Fix crash starting as administrator on Ubuntu 11.04.
Support Seamonkey 2.0 (pointed out by Ed Hurst and Gogeden)
Do not delete /var/tmp/kdecache to avoid crashing KDE (KDE#271889)
Fix crash when changing options when Linux packager has disabled online updates (LP#715286)
Require PyGTK version 2.14 or later
Specific to Windows
Add option to update community-maintained cleaners as winapp2.ini, a file with 535 cleaners and growing. Enable this option if you want it: by default, it is off.
In Google Chrome, delete more History (Top Sites)
In Internet Explorer, clean more temporary files (feeds cache)
If Windows Update Service is not originally on, do not stop/restart it
Fix for either Silverlight or Windows Media Player not showing
When aborting shred folders, do not give error (LP#794198)
More thoroughly "shred settings and quit" and avoid run-time error (LP#794198)


The app also added a new option to download and update cleaners.(similar to ccenhancer)

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Download | BleachBit (http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/download)

[Jagsaw1]

BleachBit 0.9.1 released

Changelog:

Clean segments and segment_usage in Google Chrome History
Clean favicons on Chromium, Google Chrome
Clean "History Provider Cache" on Chromium and Google Chrome
Clean download history in Chromium, Google Chrome
Fix rare "ZeroDivisionError: float division" bug while cleaning free disk space.
Specific to Windows Clean more of recent SeaMonkey 2.4

Download | BleachBit (http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/download/windows)