BleachBit 0.8.8beta2

BleachBit, the open-source system cleaner, announces the public 0.8.8 beta 2, which includes enhancements, bug fixes, and translation updates. Please help test.

• Kill Firefox while it is running. In BleachBit, delete Firefox
  session restore. Start Firefox, and it should not ask you to restore the session.
• In Firefox, visit a website and press Ctrl++ to increase the font size.
  In BleachBit, clean Firefox site preferences. In Firefox, visit the same site
  and verify the font size is reset.
• In BleachBit, delete Firefox history. Then in Firefox, press Ctrl+H and verify it is all gone. History for bookmarks may remain.
• In Google Chrome and Chromium, delete DOM storage and history. Icons for bookmarks should still exist.
• In Opera, delete session.
• Click File → Shred Folders, and then cancel. There should be no error.
• Click File → Shred Folders and shred a folder.
• Test File → Shred File.
• Click File → Shred Settings and Quit. There should be no error. Restart BleachBit and verify any settings were reset.
• Linux
  • Clean SeaMonkey 2.
  • Clean /var/tmp under KDE. KDE should not crash.
  • Start as administrator using the menu shortcut. BleachBit should start.
  • Test on Fedora 15 (Lovelock).
  • Test on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal).
• Windows
  • Verify the preferences dialog opens.
  • Click Help → About and click the link to visit the website. It should load.
  • Enable the option to download winapp2.ini. After restarting BleachBit once, you should see new cleaners.
  • Clean Internet Explorer temporary files.
  • Delete Windows uninstallers.
  • Clean Silverlight. The paths should look like Silverlight.
  • Clean Windows Media Player. Do the paths look like Windows Media Player? In WMP, verify the MRUs are gone.
  • In the Start menu, click the new shortcut BleachBit Homepage.

Bugs

• Known bugs
• In Windows, when updating winapp2.ini, if the file already exists, it cannot be updated. The error message is something like import shred. Workaround: manually delete the file from the BleachBit options directory. Solution: the fix is ready for the next release.
• When deleting history for Google Chrome or Chromium, it will crash with an error about none if there are no bookmarks. Workaround: create a bookmark. Solution: the fix is ready for the next release.