[browser session ccleaning = Buggy default setting imho]

This is not a bug, it's a feature. You need to uncheck sessions sections

 

Mozilla Chrome - Session

 

Google Chrome - Session

 

for the love of new features, from my point of view having this option ON as DEFAULT is a bug - [discussed below]

 

Bit of a tetchy statement if I ever did see one.

 

It may be a difference in opinion, or a different interpretation of what CC should do, but still a valid comment. Remember Lately.....

 

I consider ccleaner an amazingly dumb-proof one-click tool for removing garbage from a computer.

 

For me the genius of CCleaner is that it NEVER deletes anything CRITICAL (unless told to, anyway)

 

When it deletes OLD (backed up) browser sessions - that's OK, that counts as privacy measure (most people will struggle to even find the files)

 

But when it deletes my WORKING DOCUMETS [ie web pages] just because i am not looking at them right now, that just feels wrong.

 

Or maybe I AM werid - because after I close a browser with 15 tabs open, I do expect them to BE there next time i lanuch the browser. Maybe it's because I've been using 'tabs' for ten years?

 

Of course, it is a workflow preference. Someone else may prefer all open tabs to disappear automatically when they close a browser. Fine - but surely it's kind of weird do it with 3rd-party app, when you can easily[three clicks?] set it in most browsers? [some even ASK you about it!]

 

As of now it appears that CCleaner "by default" assumes we, users, are too lazy (forgetful, busy, etc...) to close/organize our own browsing session.

 

 

Seriously, if I found my girlfriend had cleared&binned my desk in the name of "cleanlines" & "privacy", it wouldn't make me happy, would it?

 

 

A compromise maybe, like CCleaner with optional, separate CLEARING & NET-PRIVACY pre-settings? Just an idea...

 

I can see the real-life practicality of the default setting - but I can also hear couple of hundreds of people scream in disbelief after their sessions disappeared... by the way, do YOU use sessions?

All in all, it's the eternal developer<->user communication loop :-) never perfect...

 

 

I recommend CCleaner every week, especially to not-so-geeky-people. Now I will be adding a little warning...

 

 

PS> of course... always remember: backup backup backup anyway ;-)

[browser session ccleaning = Buggy default setting imho]

I got quite upset after I ran ccleaner's last update&cleaning - my current sessions from Google Chrome and Firefox disappeared.

 

This seems to be default setting in the latest version.

 

Obviously - it is wrong to assume that user's session in a browser is something they don't need. It is like a cleaner coming to my house, throwing away my mail, just because it lies on the floor in front of the door.

 

I consider this a bug.

 

CCLEANER v2.35.1219

 

behaviour mentioned also>

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=29386&st=0&p=176021&hl=session&fromsearch=1entry176021

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=29651&st=0&p=177269&hl=session&fromsearch=1entry177269

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=29473