I see partial references to this in older posts all around this forum but was hoping to get the updated low-down on it...
When you do a default first-time installation of CCleaner on a system where Firefox is registered as the default browser, even if you uncheck every single option in the 'Internet Explorer' tab, CCleaner wipes out your Firefox cookies.
I have fallen for this twice now, and each time have had to laboriously look up old passwords, authorisations, reset my Google settings, etc.
I am well aware that you can go to the Applications tab and customise how CCleaner deals with Firefox cookies, but by the time the new CCleaner-user has learnt this they have lost all their Firefox cookie settings.
My argument is that wiping Firefox cookies (and perhaps it's other files)should be opt-in rather than opt-out, *particularly* if FireFox is your default browser. Better yet would be that the 'Internet Explorer' options on the CCleaner start page should become 'FireFox Options' or 'Default Web-Browser Options' if IE is not the default.
This cookie-wiping behaviour only started a few nudgegrades back, and that's why it took me by surprise. I've mentioned it in afew forums and been sent to the 'Applications' tab and advised to use certain Firefox extensions to protect my FF cookies, etc, but none of this should be necessary in a program as (otherwise)polished as CCleaner.
Is there a prospect of this issue being reviewed in CCleaner soon? I should add that I was very happy with CCleaner before this began to happen.