nukecad
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Here is a screenshot of one that just happened to me on Android, (sorry it's a bit large) as you can see the "Index of ...." is your first clue to what has happened.
A refresh of the page displayed it correctly.
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Yes you can get email notifications.
At the top right of any page click on your name and choose 'Account Settings' from the menu that drops down.
On the right of the screen that comes up choose 'Notification Settings'.
You then have a page where you can set up notifications for different things and whether/when you get an email about them.
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No, it cannot run when your PC is turned off.
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If you are at your PC then you should see an icon appear on the taskbar/System Tray when CCleaner is running a scheduled clean. (But it may not be there for long).
You could also do an 'Analyze' shortly before and shortly after the set time to see the difference that it has made.
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No, it cannot run when your PC is turned off.
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That kind of thing happens occasionally in any/all browsers, usually simply refreshing the page displays it as it should be.
To be more technical it happens when for some reason the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) webpage styling is not loaded correctly by the page.
So you just see the 'raw' page with no styling applied, and some of the background coding and other unstyled stuff will be visible.
(The "Index of....." for instance is background stuff that you wouldn't normally see on the styled page).As said usually a simple page refresh cures it, if not try closing and reopening the browser.
(I find it happens more often on Android than Windows and I usually have to close/re-open the browser on Android).
But if for some reason the CSS is corrupted, missing, or not being called correctly, then it will take action by the page owner to correct the problem. -
The point remains that these default search engines are not doing anything at all unless they are ticked and you use the Firefox searchbox.
They are not loading, taking up memory, or doing anything else, unless/until you call them from the Firefox searchbox.
If you don't want to see them then hide (remove) them from the One-Click search engines and forget them.
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Does that still apply to Edge Chromium though, or only to legacy Edge?
EDIT- Apparently not.
There are plenty of questions online about why the 'improved' Edge Chromium can only play at 720p whereas Legacy Edge could do 1080p. -
9 minutes ago, Léon said:
We need to find a way to live with them.
Easy, just untick them in Firefox Settings/Options and the Firefox searchbox will only use google.
Or:
Don't use the Firefox searchbox at all and set your Firefox homepage to google or whatever search you do want to use. (PS. 'New Tab Homepage' is a useful Firefox add-on if you do that).
And (at least for now) don't bother disabling them with CCleaner, because Firefox will simply re-enable them again.
I guess that mozilla are somehow making money by having them enabled by default?
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2 hours ago, Léon said:
Yes, Mr. Nukecad,
It would be interesting to know where exactly in Firefox, CCleaner finds the information about these browser plug-ins.
Apparently Firefox also used to regard these search engines as extensions/plug-ins and they could be removed from the Add-ons manager.
You can't do that for the search engines anymore, and just when Firefox stopped letting you do that I don't know.
PS. The talk about BitDefender here is confusing things; BitDefender is not a search engine and not a defualt in Forefox.
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3 hours ago, Léon said:
Hello Imacri,
The only thing that really interests me in this case is:
I don’t like (to say it mildly) Bing, bol.com, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Google, Marktplaats and all their colleagues, so I don’t want them to be enabled in Firefox.
This is exactly what we are saying; Firefox is enabling these search engines by default - and you can't stop it doing that.
If Firefox is closed then you can 'disable' them with CCleaner, but then Firefox just re-enables them again.
Nobody but Firefox/Mozilla can change that behaviour.
(I've searched online but have yet to find anyone who has managed to totally disable them permanently).It's not something that CCleaner can change, Firefox would have to stop enabling/re-enabling them by default.
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Afaik you have to get a licence for CCleaner Android through the playstore.
It's a google thing.
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My advice is as above -
Don't use Health Check, only use Custom Clean and either clean no cookies at all or work out which cookies you need to keep - with the help of the linked article.
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Are you using Health Check or Custom Clean?
It sounds that what may happening is that your email preferences for the sites affected are being saved as cookies, and CCleaner is clearing those cookies.
In that case then Health Check will always clear them, but Custom Clean can be set not to clear them.
To do that you have to use Custom Clean only and either tell it not to delete any cookies at all, or tell it to 'keep' the cookies for those particular sites.
See Options 1 & 2 here for details of how to do that:
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Have you tried the other suggestions?
If you have and it's still not registering then you need to contact support to check your purchase and if there is something wrong with the key that you have been sent.
It's not something that we can do on the open forum. (For security/privacy we can't see licence information here).You should email them at: support@ccleaner.com
If possible send your request from the same email address that you used when registering CCleaner.
(If that's not possible then noting that registered email address in your request, if you can, will make it easier for them to find your account).You should get an automatic acknowledgement by return email that your request has been received and is in a queue for action, if you can't see one then check your email spam folder.
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Yes it is designed to clear your drives and make the deleted files unrecoverable.
It will not let you completely wipe the OS drive for obvious reasons but will clear all but the OS.
More info here:
https://www.ccleaner.com/docs/ccleaner/using-ccleaner/wiping-free-disk-space
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For info could you tell us:
What Recuva version are you trying to register?
What version of Windows are you using?
Which AntiVirus are you using?And just to be sure where did you purchase Recuva from, I assume it was the official website?
Common registration issues are:
Make sure that you are connected to the internet.
If typing in the key then be careful not to mistake letters and numbers. eg. 'S' and '5'. (I don't think Recuva keys use letters anyway)
If you are copy/pasting the key from the confirmation email then is there a leading space or trailing space after you have copied it over? If so then there shouldn't be.
Are you copy/pasting the name as well as the key? It needs to be exactly the same name that you used when purchasing.
PS. We have known people to make typos in their name when purchasing, so they then have to use the same typo when registering.If you are still having problems then check if your AntiVirus is blocking the connection to Piriform/Avast servers?
Try disabling your AV before registering.Try installing in Windows Safe Mode with networking.
See also the following article:
https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/204044094-Problems-activating-or-registering-Recuva-Professional- -
I think you have to bear in mind the reason (philosophy?) behind CCleaner is to clean your computer of junk, including your browser history/cache/cookies/etc.
If your browser syncs automatically then CCleaner, or the CCleaner Browser can't do that because it will all be automatically synced back from the browsers server.
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I don't use it, (I mostly use Firefox with MBG for extra security).
And I think that may be the problem here. And I think that it's valid criticism.
This is a user help forum above all else, so that users can help each other. With some input from Piroform staff when needed.
If the usually knowledgable CCleaner users are not using the browser then they (we?) can't help with it.
I have flagged this thread up to the staff.
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Could the default engines be unloaded from a specific .dll in the main folder?
They must be 'stored' somewhere?
The search engines themselves are not actually 'stored' on your PC, they are way too big for that - but Firefox (or any browser) links to their database(s) when needed.
Quite a few .json, and other, files in the user profile seem to have links to them.
So I don't believe that being able to totally disable them would save much space or speed up your browser anyway.
Unless you tell your browser searchbox to use one or more particular search engine(s) then it's not going to link to their database in the first place.You can untick them all in Firefox.
In which case the searchbox seems to default to Google, it does for me, even if Google is unticked in about:preferences#search.
TBH many users use their chosen search engine webpage for searches rather than using the browser searchbox anyway. (I don't usually even have it on toolbar).PS. It is interesting to see from the screenshots that Firefox gives you different 'default' search engines depending on your country.
For instance here in the UK we get 'Chambers (UK)' as well as the standard Google/Bing/Duck Duck Go/etc. and notice that the Amazon engine is country specific in each of the screenshots posted on this thread.
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No need to bump usually on an active thread like this. But it is sometimes better to make a new post rather than edit.
Like yourself I've been doing some playing about with not much sucess.
I guess that mozilla just wants them enabled by default.
I suspect that even if we can work out how to stop that the next Firefox update will change the game.
As I said above though I don't agree that CCleaner should just ignore them; it should still report if they are enabled or not at any paticular time.
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@MrManneI have merged your question into this existing thread about the issue, please read this thread from the start.
Or just read my post above this one for a quick explanation of what seems to be happening.
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3 hours ago, TheKitsune said:
I think it would be really good to have CCleaner for iPhone since it is already out for android and I know CCleaner is good for removing cookies and so forth! I hope people like my idea!
People undoubtedly like the idea; Apple don't though.
You'll see many apps that have Android versions but not iOS versions.
Blame Apple's restrictive practices, here is an article about why there is no CCeaner for iPhones:
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2 hours ago, lmacri said:
Perhaps it's a matter of semantics. What you call a "pointless exercise" is what I would call a bug.
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vIf the CCleaner add-on manager for Firefox at Tools | Browser Plugins | Firefox doesn't work correctly and Avast / Piriform has no plans (or doesn't know how) to fix it, then they should remove this feature from CCleaner.
Definitely a matter of semantics.
CCleaner is doing what it is asked to do and disabling the extensions so Ccleaner is working correctly and is not bugged, but Firefox is then undoing what CCleaner has done.
(It's like asking your son (CCleaner) to close your garden gate, but your daughter (Firefox) later opens it and leaves it open, you can't blame your son for that, he did what was asked).When you run CCleaner it is simply showing the current state of those extensions, enabled or disabled.
(That's you looking out of the window to see if your gate is open or not).As you say the only thing that CCleaner could do is stop showing those startup entries for the Firefox extensions,
(That's eqiavelent to you closing your curtains so you can't see the gate).But I expect that if the entries were simply not shown in CCleaner then there would probably be complaints that CCleaner is not showing all Firefox startup entries.
I'll flag this thread/issue up to the staff, but TBH I don't think there is much that can be done by CCleaner to stop Firefox re-enabling those entries.
It's something that would have to be changed with Firefox itself. (Maybe post a bug report on Bugzilla?)PS. By playing about with About:Config and Perfs.json I can sometimes, not always, get Firefox to stop re-enabling the Bing search engine extension for a while - but only for a while and it always comes back eventually.
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1 hour ago, lmacri said:
Doesn't that qualify as a bug?
Not really a bug - CCleaner is doing what is is expected to do and disabling the extensions - but Firefox is then re-enabling them again as soon as you launch Firefox.
So it's more of a pointless excercise disabling the 'special' Firefox extensions, rather than being a bug.
It wouldn't matter how, or what, you used to disable them, Firefox will always put them back/re-enable them.
(This particular issue is nothing to do with syncing, but it is similar to the syncing issue with browsers.
If you have your browser synced then you can clean synced browser data off your machine with CCleaner and it's gone from your machine; but the browser will sync it back again as soon as you open the browser - So that cleaning of synced data is also pointless).This one may be confined to those 'special', pre-loaded, Firefox extensions and not be an issue with other browsers?
(And I'm not going to install Chrome just to test it).(PS. I believe that I have found the json file that is controlling that automatic search engine/other extension launching in Firefox but want to look at things a bit more before playing about with it).
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Well I've not found how to permanently disable them yet, but I have found confirmation of my thinking/testing of what the Firefox 'Remove' option actually does, or more importantly doesn't do.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-search-settings-firefox
QuoteTo remove alternative search engines you don't want to be displayed in the search bar or address bar, remove the check mark next to the search engine listed in the Search panel under One-click Search Engines. This will not remove the search engines themselves.
I'm tending to think that they are 'baked in' and can't be completely disabled/removed without some kind of hack to the Firefox loading process.
This popped up in my CCleaner browser
in CCleaner Browser Help
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I'm not sure why the OPs local OneDrive directory is being displayed (without styling) as a browser page.
Maybe the Firefox install had put something in OneDrive that the CCleaner browser was trying to display?
When you install Firefox as the default browser it usually opens a welcome webpage.
So if the OP had not made Firefox the default during the install then perhaps tried to open whatever browser was the default, in this case CCleaner Browser.
But the local directory is certainly being displayed (without styling) in a browser, with the pathname in the address bar.
I can do that manually in Firefox and the styled page is displayed as the screenshot below.
The main difference I can see in the pathname is the tripple slash in my Firefox as opposed to a pipe it the OPs screenshots.
But that could just be a difference between how the browsers display the pathnames of local directories in the address bar?