Hi, Piriform crew. I'm a long-time user. I often clear Firefox's internet cache and remove unwanted cookies while the browser is open & running. Before v5.23, my routine was:
1. click a toolbar button to clear the cache
2. right-click the tray icon to run ccleaner and purge unwanted cookies & local-storage
Simple. Easy. Fast.
Five months ago, v5.23 (and later versions) removed the ability to clean cookies while the browser was still running. The loss almost drove me to use a firefox add-on for cookie management, but CCleaner's thoroughness is superior. It finds cookies (and local storage) that are missed by those browser add-ons. So I still use CCleaner for cookie management, but it's a hassle.
With CCleaner v5.23 to 5.26, my cookie-clearing routine has been:
1. Quit.
2. Wait for CCleaner to run.
3. Start browser
4. Wait a while (many extensions and tabs)
I'm finally impatient enough to create a Piriform forum account and, I hope, catch the eyes of some CCleaner developers. Perhaps the missing functionality was lost accidentally while working on v5.23? (I hope.) You can see why it matters to me and to at least one other person who wrote about it here in the community forum.