Using Waterfox and would sure like to clean with BB

Submitted by dragonx5 on Wed, 03/21/2018 - 11:47
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It was getting harder to keep FF hardened so I switched to Waterfox about 3 months ago. Sure would be nice if BB was able to clean it! I did see/read the Pale Moon/BB thread from about 10 months ago. Any progress?
Thanks Andrew.

andrew

Thu, 03/22/2018 - 14:11

The code is not yet written, but I have a good plan for how to do it. It will make it much easier to support derived browsers (such as Waterfox, Pale Moon, Flock, Chromium, Vivaldi, Yandex, and Opera), and it will also help with multi-platform support (Windows, Linux, and Mac).

I plan to do it for the next release (BleachBit 2.2). For updates, subscribe to issue GH#310.

Until then if you use Linux with BleachBit 2.0, it is not too difficult to alter Cleaner.py to change the root path for Firefox to be for Waterfox.

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blucruzer

Tue, 03/27/2018 - 12:01

waterfox is loaded into /home/xxx/cache BB will find and clean it there. at least it did when i used waterfox.

andrew

Tue, 03/27/2018 - 13:16

blucruzer: Yes, BleachBit 2.0 can easily clean anything in ~/.cache , but Waterfox has additional files (such as cookies and history) in another directory. These will be missed in BleachBit 2.0.

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blucruzer

Wed, 03/28/2018 - 13:04

oops, i forgot waterfox now has it's own directory. they did that right before i stopped using it.