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We have expanded cleaning with 23 new options, especially for popular apps in Windows Store and social media apps (e.g., Douyin, YouPlay, Facebook Messenger), video editing (Video Editor Master, ClipChamp), and <strong>Mozilla Firefox</strong>.
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What new cleaning options are available for Mozilla Firefox, and does this only apply to the Mozilla Firefox Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app available on the Microsoft Store? I just launched CCleaner Free Portable v6.10.10347 (using the same ccleaner.ini file that I was using for the previous v6.09.10300) and can't see any new options for the Custom Clean feature at Applications tab | Firefox, and when I click the "Analyze" button it doesn't appear that any new items will be cleaned for my desktop version of the Firefox v111 browser.
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Please note that <strong>I don't want CCleaner cleaning anything in my default Firefox browser</strong> after the damage that CCleaner 5.69.7865 did to Firefox v79 add-ons (see my 03-Aug-2020 post in circcc's <em><a href="<___base_url___>/topic/58613-problem-with-firefox-79-fixed-in-v570/#comment-322641" rel="">Problem with Firefox 79</a></em>).
I've been following FlyHigh's 15-Mar-2023 topic6.10.10347 about how the "expanded cleaning with 23 new options" in CCleaner v6.10 is starting some Windows services like the TeamViewer service to perform new cleaning tasks even if the user has deliberately configured the service not to run at boot-up, and I want to make sure that CCleaner v6.10 isn't doing something to my Firefox browser that it shouldn't be doing before I actually click "Run CCleaner" and allow it clean my system.
This isn't the first time that Avast / Piriform has added and automatically enabled new cleaning options that unexpectedly deleted data or made some change that users didn't want (see my 20-Feb-2022 thread Question RE: New Windows SubSystems Temp Files Cleaning in Cleaner v5.90 for another example). I could see why they might do this for the Health Check feature - that's one of the risks of using this type of "one size fits all" one-click cleaner - but a user's Custom Clean settings should never be changed without their permission.
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... What new cleaning options are available for Mozilla Firefox, and does this only apply to the Mozilla Firefox Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app available on the Microsoft Store? ...
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Could you or any of your colleagues at Piriform / Avast provide further details about the new cleaning options for Firefox browsers that were added to the current CCleaner v6.10.10347?
The 15-Mar-2023 release notes <here> for v6.10.10347 state "We have expanded cleaning with 23 new options, especially for popular apps in Windows Store and social media apps (e.g., Douyin, YouPlay, Facebook Messenger), video editing (Video Editor Master, ClipChamp), and Mozilla Firefox. " but I am unable to determine exactly what new items CCleaner v6.10.10347 can now clean in my Firefox browser.
i think that the ccleaner releasenotes are referring to firefox from the microsoft app store, not the normal version of firefox that you download from mozilla. that is the difference, i think.
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i think that the ccleaner releasenotes are referring to firefox from the microsoft app store,
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That is likely, the Firefox version from the MS store does use different file locations to the standard Firefox.
However I've never had Firefox from the MS store and CCleaner v6.10 is also now cleaning some new entries in the standard Firefox as I noted above.
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i think that the ccleaner releasenotes are referring to firefox from the microsoft app store, not the normal version of firefox that you download from mozilla...
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Hi redwolfe_98:
That's one possibility, but have you confirmed that yourself or is that just speculation?
I deliberately @mentioned employee @johnccleaner because I was hoping they would be able to get the information I was seeking directly from the software developers who added the new Firefox cleaning options. CCleaner has damaged Firefox installations in the past because their QA team apparently does not test the potential effect of CCleaner on nightly/aurora/beta releases of Firefox before new (stable) Firefox versions are released to the general public (see my 03-Aug-2020 post in circcc's Problem with Firefox 79 ) so I'm always wary when Piriform / Avast makes any changes to Firefox cleaning.