CCleaner's problem with firefox

CCleaner for Windows
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please could someone tell me just why c-cleaner takes so long to clean the temporary files from the firefox internet cache? this never used to be a problem for C-cleaner : it used to take barely longer than it did to analyze the files for cleaning. now it takes forever. i c-clean at least once a day and so it isnt down to there being a huge backlog of work. also it doesnt matter if i have just cleaned it. and havent used firefox since i last did.

for example- an hour ago i analyzed with c-cleaner which said roughly 1300mbs to remove. after 5 mins of it being stuck at 43% and stil saying it was cleaning firefox i went out. when i came back 20 mins later it was still at 43% and cleaning firefox. i cancelled the operation and c-cleaner said it had managed to clean 800mbs. so i analyzed again, ran the cleaner and gave up after 20 mins of watching it sit at 43% still cleaning the internet cache of firefox. whats up with it?

2

if you haven't yet done so, there is a new version; https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds

what is your OS and FF version?

is CC still slow cleaning FF with the PC in Safe Mode?

3

It is "normal" that CCleaner takes ages to clean up Firefox. That's why I always run Privacy Eraser (cleans up Firefox in one minute or less) before starting CCleaner. After that CCleaner is pretty fast in cleaning up Firefox.

4

also achievable with Enable Browser Monitoring in CC turned on, but of course, that's a Pro feature. :)

5

Try this as in the past it was the cause of slow cleaning of Firefox that I discovered:

1. Start CCleaner.

2. Go to the Firefox settings in CCleaner and untick/disable: Compact Databases

If it speeds through cleaning Firefox the next time you use CCleaner the Compact Databases was the issue.

6

Disable 'Compact Databases': no difference.

The item that takes such a long time is "Internetcache".

7

i dont think its compact database...

i have made the same observation as in post 1 - with full ff-cache ccleaner need a long time for cleaning and it cleans every single temporary folder one by one. i think it can go faster...