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Google finds AVG Chrome extension to bypass malware checks, possibly exposing browsing data | ĪVG’s extension is ostensibly designed to provide a search safety tool, but it also captures revenue from routing search queries to its own pages. Mozilla and Opera remove Avast extensions from their add-on stores, what will Google do? | Mozilla removes all Avast Firefox extensions | gHacks Tech News New CCleaner scandal: forced automatic updates | gHacks Tech News Its viciousness is equivalent to “Google”.Īvast acquires Piriform, makers of CCleaner | gHacks Tech Newsĭont install or upgrade to CCleaner 5.45 | gHacks Tech News Deleting cached files may increase the time it takes to reload a resource as well.ĬCleaner was acquired by Avast and transfiguration into “Spyware”. Firefox's cache is limited by design so that it won't use all of a system's hard drive for cached files. Now what about your browser cache? It is not deleted by History Cleaner this is what tends to fill up your storage, visit a few pages and it'll gobble up a few Megabytes. History Cleaner is an open source WebExtension, and a port of the Expire history by days add-on. If you need to clear the cookies, you should take a look at the Cookie AutoDelete extension. So, your logins on websites should remain unaffected. Remember, this extension only clears the history and not the browser cookies. Once the set time is over, History Cleaner will delete the browsing history on its own. Just enter the number in the field and you're good to go. You could set it to any number of days that you want. Don't set it to zero though, because that disables the add-on. The only setting of the extension can be accessed from the Options page it lets you set the number of days to keep the browsing history. You will see three tabs here: Details, Options and Permissions.

Open the about:addons page in Firefox and select History Cleaner. Install the add-on and you'll find that there is no button to click on the toolbar, and there are no options to toggle from the context-menu.