BleachBit

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BleachBit
Software Details:
Version: 1.8 / 1.9.1 Alpha updated
Upload Date: 27 Sep 15
Developer: Andrew Ziem
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 73

Rating: nan/5 (Total Votes: 0)

BleachBit is an open source and cross-platform software project that provides users with an easy-to-use and powerful system cleaning utility that promises to improve privacy and free disk space. It has been designed to work on either Microsoft Windows or GNU/Linux operating systems.

Features at a glance

Key features include the ability to free cache, delete logs, shred temporary files, clear Internet history, delete cookies,  as well as to discard junk. It supports cleaning of over 1000 applications at the same time, and features a simple graphical user interface with clearly labeled options for safe wiping.

Before starting the cleaning operation, the user must set up some basic settings, such as to check periodically for software updates, start the application when the computer starts, overwrite files to hide content.

In addition, you can also add custom file and folders for deletion, choose writable folders for each drive for which to overwrite free space, delete extra languages from the system, as well as to add file and folders that you don't want BleachBit to delete.

It cleans everything you want it to clean!

BleachBit is known for being very app-friendly, supporting a plethora of open source or proprietary software projects, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, VLC Media Player, SeaMonkey, LibreOffice, Oracle Java, Adobe Flash Player, Chromium, and many more.

It will clean anything you want it to clean, such as cache, cookies, form/download/URL history, crash reports, DOM storage, passwords, session restore, site preferences, search engines, recent documents, temporary files, chat logs, broken desktop files, clipboard, memory, rotated logs, trash, and much more.

Bottom line

Summing up, BleachBit is a unique and extremely handy application that will do exactly what it promised from the get-to, clean your computer, free disk space and maintain privacy. It is supported on a wide range of GNU/Linux platforms, installable from the default software repositories of your distribution.

What is new in this release:

  • In Preferences, there is a new option "Confirm before delete" that disables the confirmation (thanks to codesomniare).
  • When BleachBit starts, the window is centered.
  • The tool "Shred Settings and Quit" in the File menu is fixed.
  • Added cleaning for Opera passwords (Linux support thanks to theatre-x).
  • Shrink storage size of BleachBit icon.
  • Add descriptions to many cleaners (thanks to theatre-x).
  • Add a new command line option --debug-log that logs debug messages to a file.
  • Replace hard-coded localizations cleaning system with CleanerML entries (thanks to tstenner).
  • Whitelist /tmp/fsa for FSArchiver (reported by Max Miliaan).
  • Suppress GTK+ warning in console (thanks to iliaselmatani).

What is new in version 1.8:

  • In Preferences, there is a new option "Confirm before delete" that disables the confirmation (thanks to codesomniare).
  • When BleachBit starts, the window is centered.
  • The tool "Shred Settings and Quit" in the File menu is fixed.
  • Added cleaning for Opera passwords (Linux support thanks to theatre-x).
  • Shrink storage size of BleachBit icon.
  • Add descriptions to many cleaners (thanks to theatre-x).
  • Add a new command line option --debug-log that logs debug messages to a file.
  • Replace hard-coded localizations cleaning system with CleanerML entries (thanks to tstenner).
  • Whitelist /tmp/fsa for FSArchiver (reported by Max Miliaan).
  • Suppress GTK+ warning in console (thanks to iliaselmatani).

What is new in version 1.6:

  • Google Chrome: fix error "Favicons is version 29"
  • Google Chrome: clean application cache directory.
  • Google Chrome and Chromium: in the Preferences (JSON) file clean a list of HTTP servers that used SPDY, which can be used to track servers to which the browser was connected
  • Firefox: clean more session restore files
  • Firefox: clean bookmark backups using a new option called Backup.
  • The auto-hide option, which was removed in version 1.0, is available again.
  • Specific to Linux:
  • Google Chrome: delete Sync Data Backup
  • Chromium: delete application cache directory
  • Print a message when root account is being cleaned to avoid confusion
  • Whitelist more KDE IPC files under /tmp/ to fix problem launching BleachBit as root

What is new in version 1.4:

  • Firefox: Fix DatabaseError: no such table: moz_hosts
  • Firefox: Purge the table moz_hosts in places.sqlite for the option url_history
  • Firefox: Delete Necko Predictive Network Actions
  • Firefox: Delete more session restore files
  • Google Chrome: fix error cleaning autofill_dates
  • Adobe Reader: use wildcards instead of specific versions (thanks to theatre-x)
  • Clean netMRL history in VLC media player (thanks to tiemay)
  • Clean GIMP version 2.8 (thanks to tiemay)
  • Improve support for Liferea (thanks to Lars Windolf)
  • Specific to Linux / Unix:
  • Pass control of the ~/.cache/mozilla directory from the System - Cache cleaner to the Firefox - Cache cleaner (LP#1295826)
  • Clean additional locale directories (thanks to tstenner)
  • Clean .mask files in Easytag (thanks to tiemay)
  • Clean more history in the Links web browser (thanks to tiemay)
  • Add packages for CentOS 7 and RHEL 7
  • Specific to Windows:
  • Winapp2.ini: on 64-bit systems expand %ProgramFiles% and %CommonProgramFiles% to the 32-bit versions in DetectFile= and FileKey=
  • Winapp2.ini: support wildcards in DetectFile#=
  • Winapp2.ini: support numbers in environment variable names
  • System Information: show ProgramFiles and ProgramW6432
  • Avoid a crash when starting on Windows with an exception in setting environment variables

What is new in version 1.3 Beta:

  • Google Chrome should clean thoroughly and without errors.
  • Firefox should clean thoroughly (see LP#1326626) and without errors.
  • Adobe Reader support
  • GIMP 2.8 temporary files
  • Liferea support
  • Test on CentOS 7
  • Firefox cache should be cleaned by the Firefox - Cache and not System - Cache.
  • Easytag history
  • Links2 (web browser) history
  • VLC network streams history (see GH#15)

What is new in version 1.2:

  • When overwriting free disk space is aborted, use a fallback system to make sure the temporary files are deleted before BleachBit exits abnormally; store temporary files in standard temporary file directories; and speed up on Linux.
  • Expose Mozilla URL history (places.sqlite) cleaner to CleanerML, so better custom cleaners can be written for Mozilla-based browsers.
  • Update Warzone 3.1 for Windows.
  • Better find Firefox profiles (LP#1287489; patch by Gogeden)
  • Add warnings to some cleaners about deleting passwords (thanks to theatre-x).
  • All of BleachBit is now on GitHub across four repositories.
  • Specific to Linux / Unix;
  • Add cleaner for APT package lists.
  • Update Konqueror cleaner (thanks to tiemay).
  • Update Debian package for Debian and Ubuntu.
  • Add Fedora 20 RPM package.
  • Add Ubuntu 14.04 DEB package.
  • Do not crash on startup for new platforms (in this case, for FreeBSD) .

What is new in version 1.1 Beta:

  • Wipe free disk space. BleachBit should not be unresponsive, and when it is done, there should be about the same amount of free disk space available. Try various file systems: ext3, ext4, FAT, NTFS
  • Clean Warzone 3.1
  • Specific to Linux:
  • Test on Fedora 20
  • Test on Ubuntu 14.04
  • Clean APT package lists
  • Clean Konqueror
  • Specific to Windows:
  • During installation disable shred integration. Then right click on a file in Windows Explorer and see the option is unavailable. Reinstall with the option enabled and verify the option is there.

What is new in version 1.0:

  • The command line option --shred now shreds arbitrary files.
  • Add Octave cleaner
  • Add Warzone 2100 cleaner
  • Clean recently played in VLC (thanks to nolme/Vincent DUVERNET - Nolme Informatique)
  • Google Chrome: Fix errors "Favicons is version 26" and "DatabaseError: no such column: full_path"
  • Google Chrome: delete more cache
  • Remove auto-hide option. (Before, it was a default.)
  • Add SQLite3 cleaner
  • Adobe Flash: clean NativeCache

What is new in version 1.0 Beta 2:

  • Clean Adobe Flash
  • Clean Octave
  • Clean Warzone 2100
  • Clean Google Chrome with the "overwrite contents" option enabled. Verify there are no errors, and the bookmark icons are preserved.
  • Clean VLC with the "overwrite contents" option enabled.
  • Run a command line like this to delete a specific file or folder:bleachbit --shred /some/filename
  • Clean SQLite3

What is new in version 0.8.8:

  • In Firefox, delete more session restore
  • In Firefox, delete site-specific preferences
  • In Firefox, delete input history.
  • In Firefox, delete more URL history.
  • In Google Chrome and Chromium, properly delete HTML5 cookies without deleting preferences for extensions (LP#732567)
  • In Google Chrome and Chromium, delete the Databases.db files
  • In Google Chrome and Chromium, delete favicons (except those that have bookmarks)
  • In Google Chrome delete more history: the DNS prefetching host referral list
  • In Opera, delete session backup
  • Specific to Linux:
  • Fix crash starting as administrator on Ubuntu 11.04.
  • Support Seamonkey 2.0 (pointed out by Ed Hurst and Gogeden)
  • Do not delete /var/tmp/kdecache to avoid crashing KDE (KDE#271889)
  • Fix crash when changing options when Linux packager has disabled online updates (LP#715286)
  • Require PyGTK version 2.14 or later

What is new in version 0.8.8 Beta 2:

  • This version better cleans Firefox, Google Chrome, Chromium, Opera, Internet Explorer, and Thunderbird.
  • Translations were updated and added.

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